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Love your Coffee
My wife LOVES her coffee. In fact, the only time I can ever remember in our nearly 12 years together that she didn’t drink it daily was during her pregnancy with both our two-year-old son and our daughter, who will probably be arriving any day now. For a long time I was not a coffee [...]
ATryn: Biotech Trailblazer
A little over a year ago, GTC Biotherapeutics successfully won orphan drug status for a new product they were developing called ATryn. The drug is intended to treat people suffering from a rare disease called “Hereditary Antithrombin Deficiency,” a genetic disorder leading to poorly functioning or diminished levels of antithrombin, a condition that can lead [...]
Superbugs Rising
My son has had a persistent cough for about 3 weeks now. We took him to the doctor a week into it, and they didn’t find anything for which they could prescribe medication; they believed he had some sort of virus that had to work itself through his system. Cut to yesterday, when we noticed [...]
We’re all Doctors Now (Sort of)
When it comes to seeing my doctor, the internet can be both a blessing and a curse. I tend to avoid going to the doctor for something I perceive as a slight pain, or minor discomfort. Really, it’s a bad, bad practice, and I know I should be better about going to my doctor, but [...]
Virtual Diagnosis in the Classroom
As most may know, I’ve done a lot of research into people who are leveraging virtual reality as both a tool to teach medical diagnostics in a safe and controlled setting, and as a medium through which we can better understand psychological disorders and even develop treatment methods that are less stressful for the patient [...]
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