Main photo courtesy curearthritis.org A Guide to Avoiding Knee Replacement By Dr. James Katz, MD, MPH Last year there were 600,000 total knee replacement surgeries in the United States. Insurers spend five billion dollars on knee procedures per year. It is a...
Post Herpetic Neuralgia can be like a Spear in the Chest It Can Be Prevented – But at a Price Shingles is a virus that resides in nerve roots near the spinal cord. It is activated by aging, most commonly over age 60. A shingles episode lasts approximately three weeks....
We have been building towards this moment in medicine for 30 years. Thirty years in the genomic age is not a long time. In medicine, crystalline moments can accrue over a millennium, until a principle is recognized. Such patiently acquired knowledge is not easily...
