Len Zwelling

What Would a Rational System for New Anti-Cancer Drug Development Look Like? By Leonard Zwelling          Some of my best friends are clinical investigators and many of them work at the very edge of the clinical-laboratory interface, phase 1 drug development. This is the area of human subjects research that deals with the earliest clinical …

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The Stupid Bowl: It Scares the Hell Out of ‘Em By Leonard Zwelling          No one watching the annual spectacle of American excess called the Super Bowl can deny it any longer. The most powerful force in the universe is stupidity. Whether it is the “dead kid” commercial, the spilled Coke in the server ad …

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Measles As Metaphor: My Right To Have What She’s Having By Leonard Zwelling          Believe it or not, this has already been decided by the Supreme Court in 1905. A state can force vaccination (in this case, Jacobson v. Massachusetts, it was small pox) or levy a penalty with some exceptions for which the plaintiff …

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But Is He Jewish? http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/28/human-and-neanderthal-love-affair-is-traced-back-to-israel-55000-years-ago/          For we Jews, as with many others who believe in God, marrying out of our religion is frowned upon. But marrying out of our species? Who knew?          Apparently, a skull has been found in Israel that may indicate interspecies breeding between Neanderthals and humans occurred in the Promised …

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My latest in today’s Houston Chronicle. You may need to subscribe for this link, but s link should work on chron.com later today.   Thanks. http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Zwelling-Texting-doctor-puts-health-care-in-6049527.php LZ http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Zwelling-Texting-doctor-puts-health-care-in-6049527.php?cmpid=gsa-chron-result

The Remarkably Prescient and Insightful Op-Ed in Today’s NY Times on Genomics and ‘Moonshot’ Medicine By Leonard Zwelling          It was scary on target.          Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist and physiologist Michael J. Joyner has written a piece, and I kid you not, entitled ‘Moonshot’ Medicine Will Let Us Down. He is absolutely correct in every …

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The Blizzard ’15-the Rest of America 0: Why Do the Media and Academia Believe the World Revolves Around the Northeast? By Leonard Zwelling (to all my Harvard friends, especially those who play the piano)          Lots of snow fell in Boston and surroundings. I get it. The TV reporters are bundled up like they are …

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Deflated NFL Balls Should Surprise Us Less Than Inflated Academic Egos By Leonard Zwelling          Let’s agree to control ourselves and not make any single entendres about  “DeflateGate.” Unless you have been on Venus for the past week, you are aware that the New England Patriots, the AFL representative team in the Super Bowl, have …

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Political Judo or Karate for Those With Interest in Conflict? By Leonard Zwelling          Several readers have commented on my letter to The Cancer Letter and the unsigned MD Anderson response to it. I had originally thought I would leave the issue be, but, as usual, self-control is not my strongest suit.          I, too, …

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Anti-Anti-Semitism Is the New Black in Europe By Leonard Zwelling http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/world/middleeast/modest-victory-for-israel-in-quest-for-international-meeting-on-anti-semitism.html?_r=0          This piece by Somini Sengupta in the NY Times on January 23 reports on the first meeting at the UN, home of Zionism as racism, on anti-Semitism. This is reminiscent of the calls to “integrate Harlem, but not my neighborhood” that accompanied the …

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