A study , published online January 6 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute , claims to show that screening men 55 years old or ol...

As the new year begins and election season accelerates, we will be hearing phrases like that more and more.  In the context of a political c...

Pain. Little scares a new oncology patient as much as the idea of pain.  Unfortunately, pain permeates my practice.  Often, pain is the in...

All of the kids I take care of are special.  Is that cliche?  Maybe so, but it's true.  I truly have learned something from each and eve...

 Photo Credit Tears are a fact of life in my business.  Parents cry when I tell them their child has cancer.  Children cry when they underg...

It may not be a new book anymore, and I actually read it a few months ago, but I would like to share my thoughts on Siddhartha Mukherjee’...

The times they are a-changin’ !  When I began my career as a scientist, NIH funded 25% of the applications they received.   That number is n...

I've discovered reading again.  Or maybe what I've done is made a conscious decision to set aside time to read.  Some books I've...

Life is hard to define.  Perhaps former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart summed it up best (though he was referring to hard-core porno...

(Another of David's rants about insurance companies) I've written many times about the absurdities I've encountered dealing ...