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As we continue in the time of COVID-19, our thoughts turn to social mingling and of late, fireworks.

I’ve written on the Lancet’s publication, and subsequent retraction of a paper on COVID-19 and hydroxychloroquine and I was hoping this article about the Lancet’s editor might include an explanation and apology. I was mistaken.

Volcanic eruptions can alter our climate for months or years. Probably the most well-known of these is the eruption of Mt.

I have mixed feelings about telemedicine, which has surged forward during the pandemic. What is it's promises and drawbacks? 

For some time, physicians have been moving away from the laying on of hands. An abdominal CT scan will provide the same information or more than that of an experienced practitioner in the now lost art of abdominal examination.

In the vast majority of cases, Lauer reported, the person being investigated has been an Asian man in his 50s. Some three-quarters of those under investigation had active NIH grants, and nearly half had at least two grants.

Epidemiology, the study of the spread of disease within a population, has vaulted into everyone’s awareness over the past four months.

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures. The original is here.

“Gravity has a very strong effect. So what happens when an ice sheet melts is sea level falls in the vicinity of the melting ice sheet. That is counterintuitive.

As a surgeon and woodworker, I have always found sustenance in using my hands. I think it touches, for me and many others, on a primal need to literally embody our feelings.