Saving a “Lost Generation”: The Need to Prevent Drug and Alcohol Abuse in Midlife
The unexpected enormity of substance use in middle and later life and its disastrous consequences for a generation of Americans.
Heroin and the War on Drugs
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 […]
Mission:BRAIN, Philippines
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 […]
Google Glass Delivers New Insight During Surgery
Google Glass is promising vast improvements for the medical world as a surgical and teaching tool, providing instant access to critical radiographic images during procedures and recording surgeries from the surgeon’s point of view. Reference: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/10/109526/surgeon-improves-safety-efficiency-operating-room-google-glass
MissionBrain: Guadalajara
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 […]
The Long War on Cancer
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?
