Archive for August 2012
The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
I began reading The Emperor of all Maladies with reservations. After all, how entertaining can a book about cancer be? To my surprise, the author, Siddhartha Mukherjee swept me into his world and kept my attention for the entire book. The work is intended for lay readers, but it manages to relay a tremendous amount of medical…
Read MoreEbola outbreak in Uganda 2012
The Ebola outbreak in Uganda has reached 38 cases with 16 deaths since July 1. All the patients came from a rural region west of Kampala. Laboratory tests reveal the virus to be the Sudan strain of Ebola which carries a mortality of 50 percent and which has raised its head four other times in…
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