Remember the old television commercial that ended with the warning, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”? Well, it turns…
When an American boy named Randy suffered a mild convulsion, he was immediately signed up for Magnetic Resonance Imaging—or MRI—to…
When film director Martin Scorsese updated the 1962 thriller Cape Fear, he made one significant change: He turned the crazed…
They’re so much a part of the urban scenery that we don’t even notice them any more. I’m talking about…
September had arrived, school was opening, and in Washington, D.C., the superintendent was fired up. There’ll be “a lot of…
The TV newsman spoke in somber tones: “Researchers are making grim predictions about the spread of AIDS,” he announced. It…
Imagine you are a surgeon who mends broken bones. Imagine you work with power tools–saws and drills–that send a fine…
Informed consent maintains a patient’s dignity in medical care. It means telling the patient how an operation is done and…
