Quarantine the healthy

The flu shot only works 60-70% of the time and even less in people with impaired immunity. ...
10 years ago

No cancer? Give chemo.

Giving chemotherapy to a patient with no cancer, how can you tell if it works? ...
10 years ago

100% Inconclusive

If the physician has really “laid down the law”, helping can become impossible. ...
10 years ago

Radiation: power to cure

Radiation therapy is an astonishingly precise tool with millimeter accuracy, based on advanced physics, experimentation and, above all, power....
10 years ago

Saving after Sandy

When the saga of the storm is written, there will be a long list of remarkable people who instead of running away, ran forward to help. ...
11 years ago

The aggressive chemo fallacy

We are in a war, a war on cancer. We talk of battle and attack, magic bullets, proton beam rays, laser surgery and targeted drugs, doctors as combat commanders,...
11 years ago
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