“I felt like I was being attacked by this invisible enemy,” Witt says. “It was nothing that I asked for, and I didn’t even know how to battle it.” So he channeled his frustration into music and art that depicted his pain. It was “a way I could express myself,” he says. “It was liberating.”
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The FDA has taken an industry-friendly approach toward companies using unproven cell cocktails to treat people desperate for relief from aging or damaged joints
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The Internet Has a Cancer-Faking ProblemMay 6, 2019 |
“Munchausen by internet” is rattling tight-knit online support groups
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Will Ties To A Catholic Hospital System Tie Doctors’ Hands?April 29, 2019 |
The University of California’s flagship San Francisco hospital has become the latest arena for an emotional debate: Should the famously progressive medical center increase its treatment space by joining forces with a Catholic-run system that restricts care according to religious doctrine?
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For most of his career, Dr. Stephen Trzeciak was not a big believer in the “touchy-feely” side of medicine. As a specialist in intensive care and chief of medicine at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, N.J., Trzeciak felt most at home in the hard sciences
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“It’s easy to get on your high horse when you’re not in our position,” she said. “If editing an IVF embryo is the best option to mitigate the pain that a child would otherwise suffer, then give us the choice.”
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What Cancer Takes AwayApril 8, 2019 |
Anne Boyer writes, “When I got sick, I warned my friends: Don’t try to make me stop thinking about death.”
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Critics are concerned about the explosion in controversial stem cell procedures offered by clinics—and, increasingly, respected hospitals
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