Battles for Better or Prepare for Worse

Retirement: for better or worse?

enjoyed much more than work. “I’m so busy I don’t know how I had time to work!” Others are adrift. One of my physician colleagues, recently retired due to illness, and still adjusting, reported that he met another retired doctor, who summed up his retirement this way: “I used to be important.” Retirement and disability are quite different but may overlap. The person who retires because of a dis...

For Better or Worse ? Minireview

embryonic stem (ES) cells (as well as the numerous tools Over the past several years, the scientific and popular available for studying tumor development in the mouse), press has been bubbling over with experimental findings there are two important differences between mice and that would seem to be setting the stage for a magic humans regarding telomeres and telomerase regulation. bullet agains...

Concierge medicine: for better or for worse?

Osteoporosis: combination therapy for better or worse.

Osteoporosis is a condition that is associated with an increased susceptibility for fractures. In the past few years, several drugs have become available that can reduce the incidence of fractures in patients with osteoporosis. Since these drugs work through different cellular mechanisms, combining agents of different classes may have an additive or multiplicative effect on fracture risk reduct...

Lung reexpansion--for better or worse?

struck with the complexity of the relationship between the frequency, type and duration of apnea, the degree of arterial desaturation, and the type and incidence of cardiac dysrhythmias. Recent investigations have demonstrated quite different relationships between arterial desaturation associated with apnea, and concomitant ventricular and supraventricular arrhythmias. Guilleminault et aP found...