Censoring Science at the CDC
Because I am an internal-medicine physician, friends and family members frequently ask me to recommend other physicians. When I make these endorsements, they are always of doctors who I trust will...
View ArticleResearchers Must Be Wary of Predatory Journals
Many faculty members at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and elsewhere are likely inundated with requests to contribute articles to journals—none of which they’ve ever heard of. When I started...
View ArticleArno Motulsky and the Spirit of St. Louis
Arno Motulsky, one of the founders of human medical genetics, died on January 17, 2018, at the age of 94 in Seattle (New York Times obituary, 1/29/18). I doubt his name is familiar to any of our...
View ArticleThe Science of Replacement as a Means of Escaping Aging
Even the healthiest among us who are lucky enough to live long lives will break down and, ultimately, shut down. We age; we die. Yet this seemingly unavoidable process will likely change in the...
View ArticleA Decade of Stem Cell Research: A Q&A with Paul Frenette, M.D.
Editors’ Note: 2018 marks the 10-year anniversary of Einstein’s Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine. We sat down with the director, Paul Frenette, M.D., to discuss...
View ArticleConnecting Science and Medicine to Help Patients
Whether its faculty members are training medical and graduate students or designing new drugs, Einstein focuses on patient care. The latest edition of Einstein magazine illustrates our mission through...
View ArticleLet us Now Praise Human Population Genetics
Editors’ Note: The following blog post originally appeared on Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World blog. Exactly who are we anyway? Over the last generation, population...
View ArticleHonest Results and Conflicts of Interest in Medical Research
Late last year the New York Times reported that Dr. José Baselga, the chief medical officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, had resigned for failing to disclose his conflicts of interest at...
View ArticleReflections on My Life with Taxol
Editors’ Note: Susan Band Horwitz, Ph.D., was named a recipient of the 2019 Canada Gairdner International Awards for her pioneering research into Taxol, establishing the mechanism of action of the...
View ArticleHow Understanding Genomes Can Help Treat the Diverse People of the Bronx
Diversity of the patients we serve is no secret at Montefiore in the Bronx, where I practice. You see it in their faces, clothing, languages, and accents. The people present an extraordinary array of...
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