How Low Can the Bar Go? By Leonard Zwelling A rabbi, a priest and an Episcopalian bishop walk into the bar….NO A clown, a man with a duck on his head and a nun walk into the bar…NO A midget, a giant and Jimmy Carter walk into the bar…NO Michael Jackson […]
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Grace, Paul, Marty, Jorma, Jack, and Spencer By Leonard Zwelling (For Boo) Rarely, there is a moment in time so frozen in memory that it can never melt. One of those moments occurred in April of 1967 in the basement of my ZBT dorm at Duke. The humidity had just crept back into the
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A Cut of the Profits Is One Thing, But a Cut of the Charitable Giving…? By Leonard Zwelling On the front page of the NY Times on February 6 is a story by Nicholas Confessore about Mary Pat Bonner, a woman who raises funds for liberal candidates by funneling money from big donors to
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BDS=BS By Leonard Zwelling While some of us were sleeping, a movement has arisen on college campuses and elsewhere to Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) Israeli goods and even intellectual exchanges among academics. Here’s the latest tidbit from California: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/03/pro-palestinian-students-heckle-cal-davis-opponents-with-cries-allahu-akbar/ I guess I have to say it again. Some folks are just
What Would a Rational System for New Anti-Cancer Drug Development Look Like? By Leonard Zwelling Some of my best friends are clinical investigators and many of them work at the very edge of the clinical-laboratory interface, phase 1 drug development. This is the area of human subjects research that deals with the earliest clinical
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The Stupid Bowl: It Scares the Hell Out of ‘Em By Leonard Zwelling No one watching the annual spectacle of American excess called the Super Bowl can deny it any longer. The most powerful force in the universe is stupidity. Whether it is the “dead kid” commercial, the spilled Coke in the server ad
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Measles As Metaphor: My Right To Have What She’s Having By Leonard Zwelling Believe it or not, this has already been decided by the Supreme Court in 1905. A state can force vaccination (in this case, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, it was small pox) or levy a penalty with some exceptions for which the plaintiff
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But Is He Jewish? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/28/human-and-neanderthal-love-affair-is-traced-back-to-israel-55000-years-ago/ For we Jews, as with many others who believe in God, marrying out of our religion is frowned upon. But marrying out of our species? Who knew? Apparently, a skull has been found in Israel that may indicate interspecies breeding between Neanderthals and humans occurred in the Promised
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My latest in today’s Houston Chronicle. You may need to subscribe for this link, but s link should work on chron.com later today. Thanks. http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Zwelling-Texting-doctor-puts-health-care-in-6049527.php LZ http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Zwelling-Texting-doctor-puts-health-care-in-6049527.php?cmpid=gsa-chron-result
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The Remarkably Prescient and Insightful Op-Ed in Today’s NY Times on Genomics and ‘Moonshot’ Medicine By Leonard Zwelling It was scary on target. Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist and physiologist Michael J. Joyner has written a piece, and I kid you not, entitled ‘Moonshot’ Medicine Will Let Us Down. He is absolutely correct in every
