Medicine is an odd pursuit. Each consultation is an intensely human event, unique and...

Trauma is everywhere. More precisely, the term “trauma” is now used to describe everything...

Acentral tenet of this book”, writes journalist, photographer, and filmmaker Laura Dodsworth, “is that the use...

This is a curiously old-fashioned book in its presentation about up-to-date basic science. Hard-covered; small in...

Decades ago, during an idyllic camping trip to Finland and Norway, my wife and I lost...

White Blood: A History of Human Milk is an extraordinary, semi-autobiographical, scientific and historical dissertation by...

Writing in the journal Cell (2014, 157: 267–271), biologist Robert Weinberg “lamented that cancer research was...

Let me state at the outset that ‘dying with dignity’ is no more than a euphemism...

“You know you are desperate when you are actually looking at a second-hand monkey ventilator and...

Many years ago, a physician with whom I trained stopped in the middle of award round,...

What is “wellness”? Is it a new-fangled concept or one with ancient roots? Is this generation...

Geriatricians always make me uneasy; the uneasiness being a mixture of respect and awe. They know...