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!”
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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”
drugs
actually, those 95 authors did provide a table of the drugs they’ve tested which show promise against coronavirus. Here it is. I fear the structure of the table has not survived the paste. I refer the interested reader back to the URL in my last blog post. Take it as a demonstration of the amazingContinue reading “drugs”
Look out Mr. Corona, here comes Science
The latest piece of COVID-19 information circulating in my Division Monday was a pre-print of a manuscript submitted to Nature (perhaps the world’s most highly regarded scientific journal) regarding the results of a molecular tour de force investigation of COVID-19’s protein components and the human proteins with which they interact, examining properties of existing drugsContinue reading “Look out Mr. Corona, here comes Science”
Hands off My Plaquenil?
My young friend Jason, research superstar and damn fine doctor to boot (see “shameless plugs” 2/22/20), is married to Sara, a science writer. Sara has spent the last little while researching how the patients Jason and I look after see the new interest in one of their mainstay drugs – Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) – as aContinue reading “Hands off My Plaquenil?”
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