Sick Grade
The U.S. fell to last place among 19 industrialized nations on mortality amenable to health care—deaths that might have been prevented with timely and effective care. Although the U.S. rate improved by 4 percent...
Category: medicine
Nil Metaphase
Today I did some personal chromosomal analysis: karyotyping. Extracted some blood, cultured it in a growth medium to encourage cellular DNA synthesis and division, then killed the cells, stained them, and went looking for...
Mitochondria Gone Wild
We had a clinical presentation today from Richard Hass, a mitochondrial disease expert with UCSD’s Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center. It was tough. He presented case after case of doomed little children who basically...