Tag Archive | New York Times
Linkage 2/11: The Matriarch, New Madrid, Blue Penguins
It never gets old hearing the story of how Janet Rowley found the first genetic cause for cancer in the early 1970′s, so it’s a delight to read this week’s New York Times conversation between Rowley and reporter Claudia Dreifus. The interview retraces Rowley’s steps from working with mentally disabled children at Cook County Hospital […]
Crowdsourcing the Diagnosis
Regular readers of the New York Times Magazine are familiar with Diagnosis, Dr. Lisa Sanders’ long-running column of medical mysteries. With false leads, twists, and surprise endings, these hospital narratives are typically as suspenseful as a Raymond Carver story, or perhaps more appropriately, an episode of House. The subject matter of these mysteries are usually […]
Linkage 8/20: A New Face for Athlete Concussions
The link between sports-related concussions and severe brain injury has been percolating in the press for several years now, due mostly to the tireless reporting of Alan Schwarz at the New York Times. But until this week, the research was lacking a prominent face, with most of those found to have suffered from early dementia […]
