retired doc's thoughts

 Recently I had my pacemaker replaced.This process is often erroneously refered to as  getting a new battery when in fact it is replacement ...

 Recently,I learned that nurse practitioners as well as physicians are authorized to post  the results of physical exams that were not done ...

 From my vantage point in Houston everything I see here validates my decision to urge a relative not to travel here  from Paris for Christma...

 In the early days of the covid 19 pandemic there was much speculation about what percent of the population would have to be vaccinated in o...

The epidemiology  predictors at IMHE made their prediction for the 2021 winter on a tweet published November 5. Based on three factors they ...

 There have been a number of reports of cardiac fibrosis in endurance athletes. It turns out that these reports pertain to areas of late gad...

 It has been known for over 100 years that physical exercise  may cause heart enlargement.A study of Harvard rowing team members described c...

 Aaron Ross Powell from Cato Institute writes about the  always fragile "fusion" of conservatives and libertarians becoming increa...

 A large prospective study (1) from Korea demonstrated a positive relationship between self-reported physical activity and coronary artery c...

Sixteen years ago I posted an entry on this blog in which I suggested an anti-hubris courses ( or at least a few lectures) for medical stude...

 The right ventricular apex was the preferred site for ventricular activation for pacemakers for several decades.After the realization that ...

 Dr Runacres (I am not making that up) et al published a meta-analysis of 165000 long time athletes and found , as have other studies, that ...

 Here we are in another covid surge in the US even though there are no shortages of masks or vaccines.Neither is there a shortage of people ...

 The rapid uptick and downtick of Delta observed in England has been thought by some to predict  a similar course for the US but the opening...

 CDC has now seemingly realized that fully vaccinated people can harbor large amounts of the delta variant in their noses and are able to tr...

 In the pre Delta variant era the vaccines were thought to be the answer. The expectation and hope were that a vaccine could provide immunit...

 As the delta wave continues to surge steeply upward some optimistic public experts project that US will see the rapid downturn in attack ra...

 Data (1) are available regarding effectiveness of   the Pfizer 2 dose mRNA vaccine in Israel,Canada and England/Scotland. As regards the va...

 Is the US already into the 4th surge of covid pandemic? Cases and hospitalizations and ICU admission are definitely trending upwards. Physi...

 The 4th covid  wave is already in the US. It is  fueled by the much greater infectivity (1) of the Delta variant  arriving at a time of nat...