Two summers ago, thousands of people poured buckets of icy water on themselves and posted videos of it on social media in the name of a disease most had barely heard of — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), somewhat better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Although ALS, a neurodegenerative disorder that leads to permanent paralysis of…
More than 2,500 employees at Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine will soon get notices from the school warning that they could be laid off this summer. The notices are being prepared as YU gets set to transfer much of its control over the medical school to Montefiore Health System. It is unclear how…
Yeshiva University has revived a deal to offload its costly medical school. Students learned today that Montefiore Health System is close to finalizing the on-again off-gain agreement take over the operations and financial responsibility for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Einstein’s dean, Allen Spiegel, told 200 students a rally on Tuesday morning that the…
A health worker administers a polio vaccination to a child / Getty Images If you had to guess which neighborhood — Boro Park or Beverly Hills — the following quote applies to, which would you pick? Parents in these schools are submitting a form called a “personal belief exemption,” which states that they are not…
The kind of basic science that helped Randy Schekman win the coveted Nobel medicine prize might never have been funded if he had applied today. Schekman, along with two other U.S.-based winners of the 2013 medicine prize, Thomas Suedhof and James Rothman, slammed recent spending cuts at the National Institutes of Health, the biggest funder…
Two Americans and a German won the 2013 Nobel medicine prize on Monday for their work on how hormones and enzymes are transported within and outside cells, giving insight into diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s. James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Germany’s Thomas Suedhof mapped out one of the body’s critical networks that uses tiny…
● Eugene Braunwald And the Rise of Modern Medicine By Thomas H. Lee Harvard University Press, 400 pages, $35 The degree to which our contributions are a product of our era and the people surrounding us as opposed to our own initiative and innovation is usually difficult to discern. But Dr. Eugene Braunwald’s contributions to…
Medical marijuana is spreading in acceptance, with Illinois this month becoming the 20th state to legalize medical marijuana. But so far no states have legalized religious marijuana use, even though there is compelling reason to do so. People consume alcohol for religious reasons, especially Jews. At least 25 states even allow minors to consume alcohol…
דאָס בוך איז גרונטיק געפֿאָרשט, לעבעדיק אָנגעשריבן — אָבער אידעאָלאָגיש באַפֿאַרבט
