In my March 22 blog post, describing each of the drugs the Chinese had been using to treat COVID-19, I mentioned the agent remsdesivir, which works by acting as a nucleotide analog of adenosine (remember the 4 letters of the language of God: ATGC https://www.amazon.com/Language-God-Scientist-Presents-Evidence/dp/1416542744/ref=sr_1_1?crid=149QA07AXVVM1&keywords=the+language+of+god&qid=1584884234&sprefix=the+langua%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-1), taken up into the new RNA being made by the virusContinue reading “remdesivir”
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1919
In looking for something else in Journal-Lancet, the long defunct journal of the South Dakota State Medical Society, I came across this article in the 1919 volume, written by Dr. Morton Field of Northfield, Minnesota. The Spanish Flu epidemic was still raging and he decided to treat some of his patients with quinine. Lo andContinue reading “1919”
Who was that masked man?
The rare times I’m out and about these days, I don’t see too many smiles. I don’t think that’s because everyone is terribly depressed, but people are anxious and many if not most are covering up their faces for protection from dreaded Mr. Corona. But does this make any sense, or are people just clingingContinue reading “Who was that masked man?”
Hail Caesar!
My friend Matthias Schneider from Düsseldorf and I had occasion to exchange e-mails recently, as I’m looking to contact one of his former young charges who once was doing some interesting things with arthroscopy. When Matthias and a colleague visited Ann Arbor in the 90s, Kathy and I fed them dinner which featured the CaesarContinue reading “Hail Caesar!”
A Proud Line
What started as a meandering around various spots I’ve landed in medicine led to the realization I have a pretty famous (in some circles) Grandfather. I was actually looking for symbols and crests. Some places I’ve been, like my medical school, have some pretty awesome crests. The back of my new business card has crestsContinue reading “A Proud Line”
Come back West, old man?
On March 30th, in plenty of time to avoid being taken for an April Fool’s joke, California Governor Gavin Newsome issued executive order N-39-20 https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3.30.20-EO-N-39-20-text.pdf giving the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) the authority to waive professional licensing requirements for the healing arts boards under DCA during the COVID-19 State of Emergency. AnyContinue reading “Come back West, old man?”
Want a Z-Pac with that Plaquenil?
An article in the New York Times yesterday gave a face to a controversial treatment for COVID-19 that’s been the stuff of rumors for weeks https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/technology/doctor-zelenko-coronavirus-drugs.html. Dr. Zev Zelenko, primary care doctor to his community of 35,000 Hadassic Jews in Kiryas Joel, about an hour’s drive from Manhattan, has been treating even mild cases withContinue reading “Want a Z-Pac with that Plaquenil?”
Hello Plaquenil! You too, Aralen
On Sunday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to the Health and Human Services’(HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (ASPAR’s BARDA) for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for coronavirus treatment. The agency allowed for the drugs to be “donated to the StrategicContinue reading “Hello Plaquenil! You too, Aralen”
why rheumatology and, um, death?
I thought after all this coronavirus stuff, we needed a light break. As is often the case these days, this one was inspired by my high school English teacher Mrs. Pharriss. Towards the end of a long e-mail, she asked me: “Did you have to deal with deaths of patients very often during your medicalContinue reading “why rheumatology and, um, death?”
Michigan COVID-19 Update
The Department of Internal Medicine (my home) at the University of Michigan Medical Center devoted its weekly Grand Rounds to a discussion of the first 30 days of COVID-19 here. Just last week, the hospital opened a new ward – the 32 bed RICU (Regional Infectious Containment Unit) – devoted to the care of COVID-19Continue reading “Michigan COVID-19 Update”
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