A Country Doctor Writes
APRIL 26, 2025
As doctors, we are like actors or musicians. We play roles, we play compositions that can reach deeply into the consciousness of other human beings. We can evoke feelings and sometimes bring about change if we are skilled and genuine in our delivery of the message our patients need to hear in the moment we meet them. This is a topic I keep coming back to, with words like ACT, CHAMELEON and ROLE PLAY.
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APRIL 26, 2025
Frontotemporal dementia has gained significant attention in recent years after the family of actor Bruce Willis announced in 2023 that he had been diagnosed with the condition. A year later, it was revealed that US chat show host Wendy Williams had also been diagnosed with the condition.
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APRIL 26, 2025
Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can't get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like walking or showering arduous and exhausting.
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APRIL 26, 2025
What if, rather than focusing solely on the drivers of disease (pathogenesis), we also explored the factors sustaining our healththe concept of salutogenesis (derived from Salus (health) in Roman mythology)?
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APRIL 26, 2025
With one-fifth of states seeing active measles outbreaks, the U.S. is nearing 900 cases, according to figures posted Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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APRIL 26, 2025
As the opioid crisis continues, the number of babies born with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NOWS)a condition that affects infants whose mothers used opioids during pregnancyhas risen 5-fold over the past 20 years. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there are 20,000 infants a year in the United States born with signs of NOWS.
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APRIL 26, 2025
Uganda declared the end of an Ebola virus outbreak Saturday, which has killed at least two people in the east African nation since late January.
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APRIL 26, 2025
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease that destroys the nerves necessary for movement. About 30,000 people in the United States are affected, and doctors still don't know what causes it. To lay the groundwork for better tests, Thomas Jefferson University researchers Phillipe Loher, Eric Londin, Ph.D., and Isidore Rigoutsos, Ph.D. are taking a computational biology approach to see how ALS affects molecules in the blood.
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