As Stanley Gartler stepped up to the microphone in the meeting room of the palatial Bedford Springs Hotel, one of the final remaining great nineteenth century spa hotels in the United States,
The world of viruses is a turbulent one. When they find their way into human populations they can spread like wildfire and cause serious disease, before seeming to slink away again. This
Recently, I wrote a post about how we may find the solutions to some of our most baffling problems where we least suspect them. This one develops on that somewhat, discussing how
When Italian neurologist Pierluigi Gambetti characterised the condition known as Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), he described it as “the worst disease you can get”. Given the plethora of devastating diseases we can
