Mission:BRAIN (Bridging Resources and Advancing International Neurosurgery) is a nonprofit organization with the goal of providing neurosurgical expertise and resources to patients, families, caregivers, and healthcare providers in underserved areas throughout the world. Mission:BRAIN recently partnered with the Dept. of Neurosurgery at the Philippine General Hospital (the largest public hospital in the country) and conducted […]
In July of 2011, Michael Lawton MD, professor and chief of vascular neurosurgery at the University of California San Francisco, and Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa MD, a professor and brain tumor specialist at Johns Hopkins, joined forces to take a group of volunteers to the public hospital Fray Antonio Alcalde in Guadalajara, Mexico. The trip was arranged […]
When President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act many expected quick results, comparing the effort to the one that put man on the moon. After 42 years, what progress have we made?
The demographics of heroin use and overdose have drastically evolved since it’s adventitial American epidemic in the 1960’s. Cities were fraught with heroin addiction and the constitutive health and crime trends that followed. Criminal justice policy responded with draconian drug laws, such as mandatory minimum sentences up to life in prison for selling once ounce […]
When President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act many expected quick results, comparing the effort to the one that put man on the moon. After 42 years, what progress have we made?