Clinton wrote this …
Some bands never get out of the garage. Some flame out when they run out of money to fix the van in the middle of Iowa. Others, mostly cover bands, exist like the token “Mexican” restaurant in most small towns — poor replications of the real thing, but nobody knows the [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 30, 2009
Rockin in a cancer-free world
January 28, 2009
Cooking up business
Clinton wrote this …
Wonderful articles like this in the NYTimes must give Cam Patterson and the UNC Heart Center folks a pretty healthy sense of job security.
January 27, 2009
Teaching ‘medical Spanish’ to health care workers: Helpful, or not?
Tom wrote this …
One problem many U.S. health care providers face now is taking care of patients who don’t speak English. It’s a problem of particular relevance here in North Carolina, where the state’s Spanish-speaking population has increased exponentially since the early 1990s and faces elevated health risks.
Hospitals and medical schools have responded to this [...]
January 22, 2009
Peden on Pollution, Oberlander on Policy in the NEJM
Clinton wrote this …
A study in today’s New England Journal of Medicine shows that cleaner air has added five months to the average life expectancy in the US.
UNC’s David Peden, director of the Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology, provided insight in this ABC News story.
“This is a compelling paper,” said Dr. David [...]
January 20, 2009
Sen. Kennedy suffers seizure at inauguration event
Sen. Ted Kennedy suffered a seizure at an inaugural lunch today.
Read the AP account of the incident.
The senator’s seizure was probably caused by a variety of things, including the inaugural activies that might have led to an increase in his blood pressure, says Matt Ewend, UNC’s chief of neurosurgery.
Within the past few hours Matt has [...]
January 20, 2009
Health care in inaugural address
Candidate Obama said he would make health care reform, science and “energy” priorities of his administration. This could have wide-sweeping implications for everything from paying a doctor’s bill to conducting stem cell research.
His inaugural address continued that message. The phrase that seems to have attracted the most attention was that he would “restore science to [...]
January 20, 2009
Dear President Obama;
We know you’re terribly busy, and the staff is already at work, and all that. And we hope you make health care reform a priority and heed words of wisdom from our own Dr. Bill Roper.
But when you have a minute to spare could you come back and teach us how to follow offensive rebounds? [...]
January 17, 2009
Dear President Obama, about health care reform …
Clinton wrote this (edited Jan. 20, 2009, 10:30 a.m.)…
There are many voices suggesting ways to change the U.S. healthcare system. Atul Gawande’s article in the New Yorker, also blogged by the NYTime’s Well, implores us not to expect an overhaul. To summarize his metaphor, we have no health care drydock in which to sit while [...]
January 16, 2009
The big chill, hypothermia therapy to cool the brain
Clinton wrote this … and edited it 1/17/09
Who on the planet is not in awe of the “Miracle on the Hudson”?
Last night on CNN Larry King had Dr. Phil and Sanjay on talking about the mental and physical effects of the crash, the pilot and crew’s heroism and waiting, however briefly, in ice water. Some, [...]
January 16, 2009
The Twittering Machine
Tom wrote this …
Yesterday’s dramatic jet crash in the Hudson River was amazing in so many ways, most especially the fact that all 155 people on the plane got out alive, and none had life-threatening injuries.
It also provided a vivid example of how influential Twitter, the increasingly popular microblog site, is becoming.
I first heard of [...]
