Category Archives: Health care

Coffee Break: Advances in Limb Regeneration & Malaria, Plus Science & Politics and a World through the Lens of Tuberculosis

Part the First. Old Experimental Models in Biology Lead to New Knowledge.  Developmental Biology began as Embryology.  A few of us still kicking remember the transition and miss the holistic approach required to master the material.  Early embryological models included sea urchins and salamanders, tadpoles and the chicken.  Much useful research was done with these […]

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Coffee Break: Notes on Pandemic Responses, a Human Pathogen that Eats the Plastic of Medical Devices, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services Speaks Out

Part the First: Retrospective Notes on a Pandemic.  BMJ, formerly known as the British Medical Journal, has recently published two interesting pieces on COVID-19.  The first is an analysis by Anthony Costello, who was previously Director of Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health at the World Heath Organization: UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions […]

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Coffee Break: More on the Disruption of American Science and Good News on Intranasal Viruses to Combat Respiratory Viruses

Part the First. A Few Words in Response to the Excellent Commentariat of Naked Capitalism.  No one knows better than I that funding of science in the United States is hit or miss.  My overall average flirts with the Mendoza Line, which is not so bad.  For most I do not miss the grant treadmill/lottery, […]

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