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A small confession, I feel evolution has solved many of the problems and decision making we do in beautiful ways. When I see an article that supports my belief, I read and share it where I can. Call it curator’s bias.

At this point, the cycle of press releases disguised as health journalism has become disappointingly predictable.

The answer to the question is not an obvious one. You might think malaria or malnutrition? But, no - the answer is pneumonia.

I don’t know whether it is a bad few weeks for cardiologists or not, but a new article in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) entitled How M

Men.  They are the yin to my yang, the jelly to my peanut butter, the Sonny to my Cher.  You get my point.

Senator Rand Paul was recently assaulted and sustained multiple rib fractures.

Upon seeing what he deemed a poorly-constructed paper by a colleague in physics, Wolfgang Pauli is apocryphally said to have, "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."

Very smart people sometimes fall prey to very bad ideas.

Before the 1920s, statistics weren't standardized in the world of scientific experimentation. How many trials were done and how many samples per trial were determined by not much more than the intuition of the experimenter. 

The world of interventional cardiology was rocked last week with a study showing that stenting, placing a tiny metal scaffold to open up a single coronary artery to relieve chest pain (angina) was no better than optimal medical management.