A new paper published online in Science on Thursday has failed to confirm a link between a mouse retrovirus called XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome. Along with the new study, the authors of the controversial original study that …
Clinical Practice
House Watch: The Season Finale Edition
House M.D. completed its seventh season last night with a giant crash, one that would seem to divide House from Princeton-Plainsboro forever. More details (and diagnoses in bold) below — but first:
House Watch: Bathtub Surgery Edition
House gave new meaning to the phrase “Doctor, heal thyself” last night. He not only self-medicated, which he does usually does with epic amounts of Vicodin. This time he actually self-operated, cutting into that mangy leg.
House Watch: The Spanish Fly Edition
House is generally a self-destructive guy — the whole conceit of House M.D. is that he’s the sick but brilliant doctor who can heal everyone but himself. But last night we saw him injecting junk into his arm, so the stakes …
Happy Clean Your Hands Day!
You should listen to your mother: always wash your hands. That’s especially true if you work in health care, where poor hand hygiene can be matter of life and death.
Making Sense of Medical Statistics: What Patients Should Do
Seung Kang died in a Philadelphia hospital in 2005. He was only 59, and just a week before his death he’d been feeling quite healthy. But a heart catheterization showed blocked vessels to his heart, and a cardiothoracic surgeon …
House Watch: Is Heroism a Sign of Brain Disease?
House M.D. is back after a mid-season hiatus, which means House Watch is back. This week’s return episode, “Larger Than Life,” hews closely to House M.D.’s procedural formula, which is a safe but smart move after all that …
Study: Earphone-Loving Teens Can Hear Just Fine
Teens aren’t always the best listeners but a new study shows that their hearing may not be to blame.
The Lab Rat: What If You Could Only See the World in 2-D?
I don’t see the world the way you do. I mean this literally. Like approximately 15 million other Americans, I arrived in November 1970 with strabismus — eyes that are visibly crossed (in my case) or, at the very least, not …
House M.D. Watch: Is Faith a Mental Illness?
No, you haven’t accidentally clicked on Tuned In. This is still Healthland, but it seems like a good place to look at the latest medical mysteries on the show House M.D., which I have watched since its debut six years ago.
‘Oops, My Bad!’ The Scariest Words Your Surgeon Can Say
The last time I went under the knife was not a particularly ennobling experience. It wasn’t just the hospital gown or the hair net or the fashionable paper slippers — the classic pre-surgical ensemble — I was wearing, it was …