In their new book, Your Medical Mind: How To Decide What Is Right For You, oncologist Jerome Groopman and his wife, endocrinologist Pamela Hartzband, offer a roadmap to help people make the best ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (July 18, 2012) -- With a math problem so complex it took four days to solve, U.S. Army officer 2nd Lt. James Jones and his University of Louisville teammates, Suraj Kannan and Joshua ...
Judy Lei seems to need help with her math (Medical Roulette -- letters, Nov. 7). That 30 per cent of Canadians have experienced a medical error at some point in their ...
PRINCETON, N.J. — Len Charlap, a retired math professor, has had two outpatient echocardiograms in the past three years that scanned the valves of his heart. The first, performed by a technician at a ...
The question: For the math-averse among us — number-crunchers like Nate Silver notwithstanding — a simple equation can cause a major headache. Why do some people find the task of balancing a checkbook ...
File under: "Does not inspire confidence." You've just been screened for a rare disease, one that only strikes 1 in 1,000 people. You test positive, your doctor tells you. Your heart drops into your ...
In their new book, Your Medical Mind: How To Decide What Is Right For You, oncologist Jerome Groopman and his wife, endocrinologist Pamela Hartzband, offer a roadmap to help people make the best ...