There’s a really interesting article from The New Yorker on assessing how good doctors and medical treatments really are. The author (a doctor himself), uses treatment of cystic fibrosis as an example. He documents how some treatment facilities have used the research on CF to improve their treatment of the disease. It […]

Our family is participating in the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s Great Strides fundraiser. Great Strides is the largest national fund-raising event for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. I’m sure you’ve all heard of cystic fibrosis (CF), but did you know that it affects 70,000 people worldwide and 30,000 in the US? CF is an […]