Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men. While it can affect 3 million American men a year, only a small fraction of those will succumb to the disease. That is because prostate cancer is usually slow growing and usually something people die "with" rather than "from". Still [Read More]
Archives for September 2019
Benefits of Weight Loss Surgery
Bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) has been around for a couple of decades. It's benefits in helping to control diabetes and high cholesterol is well established. In an observational study through the Cleveland Clinic and published in JAMA last week, those benefits seem to apply to reducing [Read More]
West Nile Virus
I was tested about West Nile Virus in medical school. It was an esoteric arbovirus infection mainly in Africa carried by mosquitoes which could cause encephalitis and brain damage. Fast forward a couple of decades and West Nile is now endemic in the United States. Since 2002, West Nile continues to [Read More]
