The Long Overdue Rise of Gender-Affirming Care
There has been much written recently about the increasing demand for gender-affirming services; specifically, surgical procedures. However, transgender and gender diverse people have always existed. So to then have the need for gender-affirming care. For a long time, this need refused to be seen or acknowledged. Medicine as a field and society as a whole […]
Epigenetic signature for obesity found in study of twins
A susceptibility to gain weight may be written into molecular processes of human cells, a Washington State University study indicates. The proof-of-concept study with a set of 22 twins found an epigenetic signature in buccal or cheek cells appearing only for the twins who were obese compared to their thinner siblings. With more research, the […]
Addressing Burnout in an Invisible Part of the Health Workforce
Much has been written about the burnout of frontline health workers during the COVID pandemic and what must be done to help them. But what about public health workers — those operating behind the scenes who are also navigating long hours and increased stress? Helping those workers is the idea behind the Public Health-Hope, Equity, […]
Should Physicians Invest in Cryptocurrency?
In 2009, I came across a white paper written by Satoshi Nakamoto describing a digital currency based on a peer-to-peer network, completely independent of central banks, autonomous, decentralized, and digital, which would provide access to finance and banking to the masses. This “magical internet money,” as it was described at the time, would come to […]