However you feel about the guy, you gotta admit "You Don't Know Jack" was a well-done movie.

Certainly Jack Kevorkian is a controversial guy, and there are strong opinions on either side.  

I can imagine they'll be watching this movie in "Medical Ethics" classes in med schools for years. 

We saw breathless coverage of the "artificial life" story, with people proclaiming that a new era of biology had started.  Even today, Venter is quoted as saying they transformed one cell into another.

There are not too many drugs that improve overall survival in prostate cancer.  Right now, the list is pretty short: Taxotere.

So the announcement that researchers have survival improvement with a new drug, cabazitaxel, is pretty exciting for us oncologists.

It's easy to become discouraged, but once in a while we get something to be happy about.  Today is one of those moments.

It's funny how the news cycle can turn regular people just doing their jobs into overnight celebrities.

The Chile quake, obviously, is a huge catastrophe, and it will be days before we fully understand the magnitude of the damage.  As a resident of a quake-prone part of the world, I commiserate with residents near Santiago.

I have to admit it, I took it a little personally when David Snow, the CEO of Medco, took a swipe at doctors in early 2009.  He was quoted in WSJ as saying he has no patience for doctors who think they know better than guidelines.  “I have no patience for a doctor who says, ‘I’m above it all, I don’t want to practice cookboo

I didn't think it was too newsworthy that a Harvard prof stepped down from academic medicine to give lectures full time for industry.

I did think it interesting that Daniel Carlat, a psychiatrist and prominent blogger, called up the Harvard prof's foundation and tried to interview his wife (she hung up on him).

If that's not chutzpah, I don't know what is.

Way to go, Dr. Dan. The muckrakers of the 1920s and '30s would be proud of you.

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The 1960s brought flower power and also the invention of Tamoxifen.  Tamoxifen reduced breast cancer recurrence by 50%, and women everywhere rejoiced.

The 1960s brought flower power and also the invention of Tamoxifen.  Tamoxifen reduced breast cancer recurrence by 50%, and women everywhere rejoiced.