Thanksgiving Dinner with a Side of ER

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!I was reading the Web this morning, and this story reminded me of a Thanksgiving a couple years ago. Read the rest of this post...| Read the comments on this...

New windpipe

Pioneering Stem Cell Surgery ARIS — Physicians at four European universities have completed what they say is the first successful transplant of a human windpipe using a patient’s own stem cells...

A Breath Of Fresh Air

One of the supposedly unassailable assertions of the left is that embryonic stem cells are necessary to make progress in medical research on diseases that afflict us everyday. The tale, at this stage...

I Dunno….

Instapundit FROM A NEUROLOGIST, an online self-test for Alzheimer’s disease. Background on the test here. Kind of cool. I thought about taking the test. Then I thought…do I really want to...

Oh, Go Away

Well - A Call for Caution in the Rush to Statins - NYTimes.com “Statins have many biological effects that appear to be quite meaningful,” said Dr. Valentin Fuster, director of the heart program at...