Learn More About What It’s Like To Care For Someone With Heart Failure
A care partner is anyone who helps someone else manage their health. In terms of heart failure specifically, a care partner is anyone who is invested in supporting someone’s journey toward heart success. This could be a child, parent, sibling, friend, church or community member. And it doesn’t have to be a full-time job, either. […]
Immune recognition of self and non-self explored in new study
Unless you are an identical twin, you probably aren’t often mistaken for someone else. Likewise, our own sense of self as distinct from all other humans is deeply ingrained since early childhood. The immune system, however, faces far greater challenges in distinguishing self from non-self. Should this complex surveillance network fail to identify a foreign […]
Après the Pandemic, the Deluge
If it’s not COVID-19, what else could it be? There’s an old joke in internal medicine about a large team rounding on an inpatient cardiology service, consisting of multiple medical students, interns, residents, fellows, and an elderly senior attending. After a long and detailed presentation of an overnight admission by the post-call intern, the attending […]