Given how long H. pylori has been associated with humans as a gastric commensal microbe, it is likely that colonization confers some benefit and is pathogenic only in specific settings.
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Brain Chatter
Brain Chatter is a short, thought-provoking piece about a neuroscientist who experienced a massive stroke and gained some insight.
Pharma Windfall
Pharma’s Windfall While the COVID-19 pandemic has decimated lives and livelihoods, the pharmaceutical industry has experienced a windfall—from the billions of dollars for experimental vaccines1 and their expensive new drugs for treatment. On October 22, 2020, US FDA approved Veklury (remdesivir) for the treatment of COVID-19. Although other treatments have […]
Medical Shortage and COVID
Another Plea for Early COVID Treatment As I write this in late January, the local hospital here in South Carolina has been overrun with sick, COVID-positive patients for weeks. The stress of dealing with the onslaught is compounded by a staff shortage, due to ill health and burnout from dealing […]
Double-Blind Studies
Progress in medicine would have been impossible without anecdotes, but now anecdotes are ignored, even when they contradict supposed science.