Jeffrey Aronson: When I Use a Word . . . Coronas
The Coronaviruses were first identified by a group of virologists (J D Almeida, D M Berry, C H Cunningham, D Hamre, M S Hofstad, L Mallucci, K McIntosh, and D […]
The Coronaviruses were first identified by a group of virologists (J D Almeida, D M Berry, C H Cunningham, D Hamre, M S Hofstad, L Mallucci, K McIntosh, and D […]
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is updated every three months (“on a quarterly basis” as they put it—they mean “quarterly”). The latest updates and additions, published in December 2019, include […]
Several IndoEuropean roots mean to shine: ARG (as in argent), AUS (East and Aurora), BHEL (blue, blind, blond/e), BHERƎG (bright), DHEU (divine and Jove), GHEL (gleam, gold, yellow), KAND (candle, […]
According to a recent research paper published in JAMA, four cohorts of 252 745 women showed no “statistically significant association” between the use of talcum powder in the genital area and […]
Karen Lasser reflects on what she learnt from a protest to Melania Trump’s visit to Boston Medical Center […]
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) not only defines words. It gives variant spellings, etymologies, and instances of their uses in quotations from printed texts. And it does so, as the […]
Alex Nowbar reviews the latest research from the top medical journals. […]
As last year, my list of medical anniversaries in 2020 is restricted to multiples of 50 years (i.e. years ending in 20 and 70). Thus, I have not included, for […]
As we reach the end of the year and look back, there’s a sense that clinician wellbeing has been at the heart of what mattered in 2019 when it came […]
On 13 March 2006, six healthy volunteers were given a medication that had only a code name, TGN1412, (now TAB08) in a first-in-human study; two others received placebo. TGN1412 was […]