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Treat the Chart Not the Patient

November 2, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Killing Care Softly It’s official: doctors treat charts, not people.  Harvard researcher Russell Phillips reckons physicians of many stripes are now “data entry technicians.”  My preferred term is “checklist monkeys.”  The results for your health care? Not good. How much time and energy are really wasted?  Recent reports show ER physicians spending 44% of their time […]

Fighting Dementia Using Your Eyes and Ears

October 19, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Dementia scares people. Rates are rising.  New evidence shows decreased vision and hearing make dementia more likely.  One study out of Stanford found people who had vision loss and did not seek treatment showed five times the cognitive decline rate, and over nine times the Alzheimer’s rate as those without problems, through a period of eight and  a half […]

How Food Can Make You Smarter

July 20, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Eating trains every part of your body. Except most of that education is not conscious. When you bite down into a juicy hamburger and watch your vegan friends turn their faces away, the effects of your taste preference are far greater than than just social and psychological.  Food is more than taste, politics, culture and tradition. It’s training […]

Do Gut Bugs Change Cancer Therapy?

November 19, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

It appears your gut bug population changes cancer therapy effectiveness.  A trial of immunotherapy on metastatic melanoma found those with greater variety of GI bacteria did far better than those with more limited populations.  If you had a lot of ruminococcus around, you were more likely to stay alive. What Happened? People with immunotherapy trials […]

Can Cancer Be “Solved” in Ten Years?

October 15, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, England are proposing to “solve” the “cancer puzzle” in ten years. How Will They Do It? Treating cells as “programs” rather like software.  The result will be turning cells into “living computers” that can be reprogrammed – to treat cancer or any other illness.  Work has  commenced on a Bio Model Analyzer, […]

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