General Healthcare News
As a philatelist, I am aware of the fact that few physicians worldwide end up on postage stamps when history reviews their life's work in their respective countries. Several of the stamps issued portraying physicians for their...
The New York Times (1/13, D3, Markoff) reports, "For the first time, researchers at an IBM laboratory have captured a three-dimensional image of" a "tobacco mosaic virus." The "technique used by the" scientists...
Patients with prostate cancer all know their "Gleason grade" or "Gleason score". The scoring system was developed by Dr. Donald Gleason in the 1960s while he was at the Minneapolis VA. ...
Recently came across Health Sciences Online (www.hso.info) which claims "to be the first website to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge." One can search and browse any health...
Dr. Richard Prayson from the Cleveland Clinic along with a family member and a colleague from anatomic pathology recently asked and answered this question. Their results are in a recent publication in the Annals of Diagnostic...
Over the weekend I passed along the death of Dr. Ackerman. There is a more compete obituary today. This line from the obit sums up Dr. Ackerman: "Asked to describe himself in an interview with a medical journal, Dr. Ackerman used the...
