November 28, 2022
(STAT News) – Eisai’s announcement that lecanemab, its antibody drug for Alzheimer’s disease that targets the buildup of amyloid protein in the brain, modestly slowed cognitive decline in a Phase 3 trial offers hope to people with Alzheimer’s disease. But … Read More
November 23, 2022
(The Conversation) – We are scientists who support ethical animal research that reduces suffering of humans and animals alike by helping researchers discover the causes of disease and how to treat it. One of us is a neuroscientist who studies … Read More
November 18, 2022
(Scientific American) – After more than two years of COVID, with rampant and inappropriate antibiotic use arising from treatment protocols, public health and health care specialists say antimicrobial resistance is getting substantially worse in many countries,. This is concerning because … Read More
November 3, 2022
(STAT News) – Children’s hospitals — including Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, where I work — are designed, staffed, and supplied to take care of critically sick kids, including top-notch emergency care. But many families don’t have access to children’s … Read More
November 3, 2022
(STAT News) – Here’s what “biology’s century” means to me: In the same way the 20th century belonged to physics, the 21st is biological. But while physics in the 20th century brought airplanes, personal computers, and posters of Albert Einstein, … Read More
November 1, 2022
(The Atlantic) – That pain represents the body in distress, bringing it into focus, helps us better understand why it is bad. Pain disrupts what the philosopher and physician Drew Leder calls the “transparency” of the healthy body. We don’t … Read More
October 31, 2022
(Foreign Policy) – Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has prompted more than $100 billion in aid since February, several votes at the United Nations, and the transfer or sale of high-tech weapons systems from the United States to Ukraine, including … Read More
October 28, 2022
(Newsweek) – When does life begin? It’s one of those questions which, as Keats put it, “tease us out of thought, as doth eternity.” From the bar to the pulpit, the metaphysics are difficult, the argument is interminable, and the … Read More
October 27, 2022
(STAT News) – Treatments for pediatric cancers work well, but they come at a steep cost. Survivors of childhood cancers are twice as likely as their peers to develop at least one chronic health condition by age 50 and, on … Read More
October 24, 2022
(STAT News) – Until that day, my mom, brother, and I had seen my dad just once since he was admitted to the ICU, and even that “courtesy” was granted only because of my dad’s decades of service to the … Read More
