She was turning blue. Literally. Drs. Otis Warren and Benjamin Blackwood wrote about the case in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday. Their patient, they wrote, looked “cyanotic,” the clinical term for appearing blue. They attributed her blueness to a numbing agent the woman was using, which deadens nerve… Read More »
Dr. Nancy Brown Dr. Nancy J. Brown, a dedicated teacher and internationally renowned investigator and clinician, has been named the next dean of Yale School of Medicine (YSM), President Peter Salovey has announced. A Yale College graduate, Brown is currently the Hugh Jackson Morgan Professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University.… Read More »
Talia Sierra, PA-C | Physician | August 31, 2019 Today’s medicine is not the medicine I signed up for. I am a Xennial. Sandwiched between generation X and millennials, I don’t really belong to either. I didn’t grow up with the technological advancements that the millennial generation enjoy. I grew up with corded telephones, large… Read More »
One small step for man has become many important steps for medicine. (Photo: Getty Images) Getty On this day, 50 years ago, medicine got mooned. It was July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the Earth’s moon, famously stating “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for… Read More »
A Washington state man who received a heart transplant last year said surveillance cameras captured the moment a stranger stole life-saving medication from his doorstep last week. ‘PORCH PIRATES’ RETURN STOLEN WRESTLING BELTS TO BOY WITH AUTISM AHEAD OF BRAIN SURGERY Ron Kraft, of Pierce County, said he needs to take medication every 12 hours… Read More »
Many people today like to brag about how little they sleep and how much they work, but there’s nothing healthy at all about this kind of lifestyle. Chronic lack of sleep is associated with a worrying array of health effects, from impaired cognition and high blood pressure, to increased risk of diabetes and heart disease.… Read More »