The Musician’s Brain On MRI
Dr. Charles Limb is an otolaryngologist, and he’s also on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Wanting to study creativity on the neurological level, he used fMRI to scan the brains of...
View ArticleOvarian Cancer Screening Is Still Subpar
Cancer of the ovary is a particularly nasty disease. It often remains asymptomatic until it has reached an advanced, incurable stage, and scientists have been unable to develop an effective screening...
View ArticleHelp Fight The NIH Budget Cuts
Many of my regular readers may know that biomedical research in the United States is largely funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Please see this message from Dr. William Talman,...
View ArticleThe NIH To Hold A Course On Medicine In The Media
The NIH is doing it’s best to get science writers on the right track when it comes to responsible health reporting by holding an annual course on Medicine in the Media. The National Institutes of...
View ArticleThe Power Of Social Media Networking In Health Care
In a recent Harvard Business Review Blog, David Armano writes about the six pillars of influence that lead to measurably favorable outcomes. To achieve measurably better health, the pillars Armano...
View ArticleWoman Loses Hearing Following The Birth Of Her Child
Can you imagine giving birth and then immediately discovering that you couldn’t hear anyone? That you were completely deaf? That’s exactly what happened to Heather Simonsen, a mother of three who lives...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Things We Should Tell Our Patients About Weight Loss
It is estimated that in seven years from now, half of all Americans will suffer from one or more chronic diseases, a majority of which are weight related. The American Medical Association recently...
View ArticleCancer Treatments: To Cost $158 Billion By 2020?
Medical expenditures for cancer are projected to reach at least $158 billion in today’s dollars by 2020. That’s a 27 percent increase, assuming that incidence and treatment costs remain at 2010 levels,...
View ArticleNearly 12 Million Cancer Survivors In The U.S.
The number of cancer survivors in the United States increased to 11.7 million in 2007, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer...
View ArticleWhy Doctors Should Participate In The Debt Ceiling Debate
Joe Scarborough reminds us that the divisions in American government are hardly new, paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin’s observation that “When you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their...
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