“Why Dentistry Is Separate From Medicine”

“Specializing in one part of the body isn’t what’s weird — it would be one thing if dentists were like dermatologists or cardiologists. The weird thing is that oral care is divorced from medicine’s education system, physician networks, medical records, and…

“America Is Getting the Science of Sun Exposure Wrong”

“In 2003, a landmark eight-year study of 106,379 Scandinavian women published in the (American) Journal of the National Cancer Institute by an international team linked melanoma to sunburns (not tanning), blonde or red hair, and…

“Intentional equity”

“WHAT BULLETS DO TO BODIES”

“There was a teenage boy in August 1992 who was shot in the heart. His heart stopped beating. Goldberg revived it. He lived. But some weeks later he came in again, with a shooting injury to his brachial artery, in the upper arm. He almost bled out, almost died again, but the…

“Meet Mary Somerville: The Brilliant Woman for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined”

“That women should face such an Everestine climb toward inclusion and equality is a piece of curious and rather cruel cultural irony, for the very word “scientist” didn’t always have…

“Her Husband Was Dying From A Superbug. She Turned To Sewer Viruses Collected By The Navy.”

“mainstream scientists have long dismissed phage therapy as a fringe idea pushed by eccentrics who enjoy fishing in sewage (where many phages live). But over the past 15…