This website (and others) recently trumpeted a Reuters news story "New drug seen helpful in elderly type 2 diabetics ... according to a report in the journal Diabetes Care."Reading the "news story", which was allegedly written by a physician, it seems more likely that it was a press release planted by the drug company. For... Read more
Part of the tradition for the holiday season is celebrating the New Year: partying on New Year's eve, visiting family or watching football on New Year's day, and then getting back to work on the-day-after-New-Year's-Day. And, of course, deciding whether to make some New Year's resolutions.Personally, I gave up making New Year's... Read more
As a physician, I've got a whole collection of jokes about other occupations - and one of my favorite occupations is attorneys; for example, there's the old one asking "What's the difference between a catfish and a lawyer? - One's a low life bottom feeding scumsucker; the other's a fish." Well, I... Read more
As I write this, it's almost the night before Christmas, and along with last-minute holiday shopping and plans for family reunions and gift-giving all around, it's time for the kids to have their parents read again to them Clement C. Moore's* A Visit from St. Nicholas so the kids can meditate upon visions of sugar-plums and of flying... Read more