Personalizing Prostate Screening Prostate cancer screening by means of PSA testing was officially marshaled into the domain of the personal recently by the US Preventive Services Task Force [...]
Saturated Fat Clickbait The pattern of provocations, proclamations and clickbait innuendo related to saturated fat is fairly clear to anyone who reads past the headlines. It’s entirely clear to [...]
Marching for Science: of Advance, and Retweet While I am proud to be a participant in the March for Science in New Haven, CT, I think in 2017 the argument for science is perhaps best made with [...]
Connecticut Considers Sticking It to Big Soda The State of Connecticut is currently considering an excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. I have now testified twice before committees of the [...]
Is Fatter Better? A new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine tells us that the best weight for human beings is something pretty much like the native weight of human beings who are well [...]
The Case(s) for Veganism As I write this, I am about to leave for Boston to speak at iV, the Ivy League Vegan Conference, at Harvard. Prominent voices will gather there and collectively, [...]
Cancer Isn’t Random Despite the study in one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, and the high-profile media coverage of it: no, cancer is absolutely NOT mostly random and [...]
Standard of Care I have recently had a loved one in the hospital. I won’t say which loved one, and only note this is someone very close to me. I won’t say what hospital, or name the [...]
Diet and Truth In late February, Dr. Salim Yusuf, a prominent cardiologist gave a talk at the Zurich Heart House, circulated on YouTube before it was pulled. Citing observational data of [...]
Universal Care for Goodness’ Sake We all know, and probably all periodically use the expression: for goodness’ sake! Perhaps it represents well the prevailing cynicisms of modern living [...]
