Len Zwelling

EXTRA: Why Do They Invoke the Moon Shot? Because They Can! By Leonard Zwelling          If there was ever a doubt about the gratuitousness of the current President of the United States, it ended with his State of the Union message and his call to cure cancer in America.          It is far more likely […]

The Problem With Guns Is That It Is Not One Problem By Leonard Zwelling          Math homework was difficult. My father was an ace at math. He was an engineer and could always be depended upon to set me in the right direction yet not provide me with the answer when I appealed to him

The Truth About American Health Insurance: Not a Pretty Picture By Leonard Zwelling          The Obama Administration is proud of passing health care legislation in 2010, the famous Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare. I am not at all sure it should be because it is not at all clear that the ACA really makes health

Mr. Bill Meets The Donald: Oh No, Sluggo! By Leonard Zwelling          It was not bad enough that he of the golden mane and gimlet eye, the Lion of Trump Tower, is trying to lie his way to the Oval Office and doing a great job of fooling many of the people most of the

Movie Misnomers of 2015 By Leonard Zwelling          What a strange year in cinema!          You think you are going to one kind of movie based on the title, only to find once you have settled in with your popcorn, that a completely different film is before you. Of course, this is after the 20

Photons: All Energy and No Mass. QT and The Movies; RdP, BHO, and Reality By Leonard Zwelling          It is most unfortunate if you were not among those who saw The Hateful Eight in Ultra 70 mm Panavision and Cinerama during its one week Roadshow in 96 theaters around the US and Canada that began

2016: Prepare To Or Plan For? By Leonard Zwelling          There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes something like this: “If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.” Yet, we humans constantly emphasize the importance of planning. I am going to be an early advisor that planning for next year, 2016,

The NEXT “Big Short”: American Health Care By Leonard Zwelling          It is great when Hollywood takes one of your favorite books and makes it into a great movie. It happens so rarely. Coma, Rosemary’s Baby, Sophie’s Choice, The Godfather, Moneyball, Silence of the Lambs, and a few others come to mind. A very few

Fanfare for the Common Rule By Leonard Zwelling          There is relief in sight for the clinical investigators of America struggling with the duel curse of over-regulation and underfunding. Changes to the Common Rule that governs all clinical investigation have been proposed and are likely to go into effect next year. Caution and vigilance are

The Death of Cancer By Vincent T. DeVita Jr, MD and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn By Leonard Zwelling On page 248 of this extraordinary memoir-battle story, Dr. DeVita lists the eight attributes of cancer cells as first delineated by Weinberg and Hanahan: 1. Sustained proliferative signaling 2. Evasion of growth suppressors 3. Resistance to cell death 4.