King George III—Mad as a Hatter or Simply Manic?
Monday, 02 July 2018
As Independence Day approaches, we look back on our nation’s history with awe, inspiration and thankfulness— as well as interest in the British monarch, King George III, who not only lost America but also lost his mind. King George III’s reign lasted 60 years. It was punctuated with bouts of brilliance. The American Revolution was
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The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine Announces the Winners of the Robert S. Birch Award
Monday, 25 June 2018
We established a competition for the best original scientific paper accepted for publication in our journal, Gender and the Genome, to encourage the receipt of high quality original studies for publication. The entries were required to have included gender as a variable in their research protocols, thus assessing the relevance of sex and gender to
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Summer and Smoke
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Last summer we wrote about the perils of e-cigarettes and vaping in our blog (E-Cigarettes: When Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) that are marketed to young people who want to be hipsters, not knowing how dangerous the ingredients in e-cigarettes really are. In fact, there has been an ongoing battle among the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), manufacturers and distributors to disclose and label
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Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine Annual Gala 2018
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
This year’s gala signified a special celebration marking the Foundation’s 22nd anniversary. Why this particular choice of a date to celebrate an anniversary? It’s because we finally persuaded the two men who helped us shape and establish the original program at Columbia to let us honor and thank them publicly: Doctor Myron Weisfeldt, the former
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FDA Approves New Rheumatoid Arthritis Drug
Monday, 11 June 2018
According to the Arthritis Foundation, roughly 1.5 million people in the United States suffer with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and nearly three times as many women have the disease as men. RA, which is an autoimmune disease affecting the joints, afflicts women primarily between the ages of 30 and 60 whereas in men it usually occurs
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A Vacation? Who Has Time? **
Monday, 04 June 2018
When my editor and her associate urged me to for the second year in a row to write my August editorial on why doctors need a vacation, I couldn’t seem to do a credible job. My son, passing through the room in which I was wrestling with this inexplicably difficult assignment, suggested that since I
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A New Meaning for the Term “Glued to the Hip!”
Monday, 28 May 2018
According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), more than 53 million people in the United States have osteoporosis or are at risk of experiencing an osteoporosis-associated bone fracture. And, over six million fractures will occur in the U.S. every year. And, if you have ever broken a bone, you know just how painful and
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The World Writes on the Body: How the Environment Impacts the Phenotype – International Symposium 2018
Thursday, 24 May 2018
We now have unprecedented power to understand the mechanisms and impact of genetic activity and the factors that modulate and control its expression. We are in the process of deciphering how age, hormones and the environment all modify behavior. This symposium was constructed to set out the most exciting and significant science in the new
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A Potent New Tool Against Cancer: Hydrogel Implants
Monday, 21 May 2018
In the fight against cancer, surgery is often the first step for patients. However, once a tumor is surgically removed, inflammation impedes healing by suppressing antitumor immune cells which can result in the increase of cancer cells. Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of all cancer deaths. Now there appears to be new hope in
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The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine—Our Researchers in Action, Part Two
Monday, 07 May 2018
In this second article, the Foundation presents the research of our final four grant awardees. Two of these young research scientists are also recipients of our M. Irené Ferrer Award. Doctor Ferrer was a distinguished scholar who used the cardiac catheter to define the nature of heart disease in the living patient. Our Foundation is
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