In the past week, Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, wrote in the Washington Post about his recent diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Disease
Glaucoma is both preventable, with early treatment, and the leading cause of blindness in those over 60. Additionally, the incidence of glaucoma and its harms are greater in both our Black and Hispanic communities.
It is inevitable when “cutting for cure” that the scalpel violates the integrity of our skin barriers while at the same time unleashing the contents of cells and cut blood vessels to create a veritable 24-hour all-you-can-eat buffet for bacteria.
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The experience of a profound threat can impact us all. For most, it is a transient, although deeply disturbing, experience grounded in
By now, virtually everyone knows many people who have had COVID.
In 910, the Persian physician Al-Razi wrote that measles should be more dreaded than smallpox, an edict echoed in an old proverb:
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