retired doc's thoughts

  The strange transition of the CDC from a public health authority to a public voice of pseudo- libertarian thought was predicted to have co...

 Dr. Thomas Ganz,in whose lab hepcidin and later a counter regulatory hormone erythroferrone were discovered,said in a commentary (1) writte...

 As of early March 2022 cases and hospitalization are increasing in several European countries. Data from Great Britain indicate increases i...

 Dr. Marek Jastrzebski has written extensively on the differential diagnosis of  non selective His Bundle pacing (Ns HBP)  versus myocardial...

 By December 2021 almost 800,000 American had died due to Covid 19 and by March 2022 the death toll was approaching one million. The IMHE in...

 Gregg Gonsalves writing in The Nation claims that the Biden administration has turned its back on the pandemic and that the perceived publi...

 The CDC revised its covid guidelines.   The new low would have been "substantial spread "according to the old definition new low ...

 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 ...