Harm Reduction

Inhaling combustion products is always a bad idea. Ask a firefighter.

Being a surgeon who has cared for a range of motor vehicle accidents, gunshot wounds, stabbing, and even a fellow severely bitten by a horse, my response to horror movies is a family joke.

While it is evident that nursing home residents [1] are both susceptible to COVID-19 and suffer higher rates of mortality, it has been unclear what exactly the underlying risk factors are.  Certainly, co-morbid conditions, which seem to

During MBA school, one of my favorite courses was about operations, learning how to set up a manufacturing system, bottlenecks, throughput, parallel work lanes, and buffer zones.

The paper is the work of two physicians trained in internal medicine and a health economist, so they are free of bias as well as any practical knowledge about how surgeons operate, literally and figuratively.

"It's a war" Steve Tebbets USDA Commodity Protection and Quality Research Entomologist

The generation of aerosols from patients with COVID-19 has long been a concern in healthcare.

The research involved 26 healthy "occasional cannabis users" [1] in a double-blind study. Each participant acted as their own controls, along with vaping cannabis combinations, and then let loose on the roads for a 100-km ride.

Tomorrow the FDA will consider emergency use approval of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. The report that the agency will be basing its decision upon can be found here.