Matthew Perry Saved My Life — And Now He’ll Never Know It
The cast of “Friends”: (clockwise from bottom left) Courteney Cox Arquette as Monica Geller, Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green. NBC via Getty Images This essay contains discussions of suicide and disordered eating. Matthew Perry will […]
Senators Grill NIH Director Nominee on Drug Prices, Gender-Affirming Care
WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee questioned Monica Bertagnolli, MD, President Biden’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), about the high cost of prescription drug prices, the limits of transgender care, and rebuilding faith in the agency, during her confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Biden tapped Bertagnolli, […]
Hank Green Has Cancer. Here’s What To Know About Hodgkin Lymphoma.
Monica Schipper via Getty Images YouTube personality and author Hank Green speaks onstage as he discusses his book “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.” If you’ve ever crammed for an exam using a YouTube Crash Course, you might have had Hank Green teach you a few things about history, science, math and more. In a new YouTube […]
More Data Needed on Monkeypox, HIV Co-Infection
San Francisco has seen some of the highest case counts of monkeypox in the U.S., and Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, of University of California San Francisco (UCSF), said she’s seen plenty of co-infection with HIV. Gandhi cautioned that she sees a skewed population as the medical director of a large HIV clinic, “Ward 86,” at […]
‘We Need a Lot of Humility’: What We Heard This Week
“We need a lot of humility.” — Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, of University of California San Francisco, discussing the many unknowns surrounding whether one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine provides sufficient protection for the previously infected. “You either choose to live with it, or avoid anything that makes life meaningful.” — Alex Myers, DO, a […]