Harm Reduction

When it comes to AEDs and the potential to save lives, the good news keeps on coming.  

We all tend to do certain things because “it’s just what you do” or out of passive acceptance of conventional wisdom. In the medical realm especially, it’s always important to reassess the why.

Bombarded by elation, jubilance and some wacky celebratory rituals, being in Philadelphia during the Eagles victorious playoff football game earlier this week against the Minnesota Vikings was quite an eye-opening experience for me.

Philadelphia, the city with one of the highest incidences of drug overdoses, announced yesterday support for “comprehensive user engagement sites”– a facility where drug-addicted individuals can use their drugs under the nominal supervision of nur

After seven years at this job that there can't possibly be any surprises left, right? We've seen it all: Raw water, raw milk, coffee enemas, vaginal steam cleaning, female Viagra, gluten-free gluten, placenta eating, killer cash register

In an ironic but exceedingly fortunate twist of fate, American Heart Association (AHA) President and interventional cardiologist John Warner, M.D. hours after

Older folks are going to fall. It's a fact of life, just like the emergence of slick sidewalks in the winter. And catching your shoe on a rug, which you've had for 30 years but somehow appeared out of nowhere.

Scientific Reports published a paper on reducing medical radiation dosages, CT dose reduction factors in the thousands using X-ray phase contrast by Marcus Kitchen et. al.

If your TV doesn't work properly it's annoying. If your air conditioner breaks during a heat wave this is both annoying and possibly dangerous. But when a fire extinguisher fails, that's a disaster.

Halloween was last night and so I watched "Ghostbusters" once again, like I have every year since it came out.