Author: Lance Garrison
By Carl Gay, MD, PhD, as told to Hallie LevineWhen patients hear the term “inoperable lung cancer,” they often think that that means their cancer is incurable. But thanks to advances in treatment over the last several years, this diagnosis doesn’t mean a death sentence. There are many treatments available to slow its spread, and sometimes even put you in remission entirely. There are a few reasons why a patient might have inoperable lung cancer:Your cancer has spread. If you have stage III or stage IV lung cancer, it may have spread (metastasized) beyond your lungs to your chest wall, heart,…
What I’ve Learned About the Challenges of MG 091e9c5e820faac4091e9c5e820faac4FED-Footermodule_FED-Footer_091e9c5e820faac4.xmlwbmd_pb_templatemodule0144002/02/2021 01:57:340HTML
I had written and filed a column about Harvard and its president, Claudine Gay, when news of her resignation broke on Tuesday afternoon after fresh allegations of plagiarism in her published work. I’d like to record what I wrote: “Cancel culture is always ugly and usually a mistake. If Gay is to go, let it be after more deliberation, with more decorum, and when pundits like me aren’t writing about her.” Oh, well.The point may now be moot, but the important question for Harvard was never whether Gay should step down. It was why she was brought on in the…
Advice That Helps and Advice That Hurts When You Have Myasthenia Gravis 091e9c5e820faac4091e9c5e820faac4FED-Footermodule_FED-Footer_091e9c5e820faac4.xmlwbmd_pb_templatemodule0144002/02/2021 01:57:340HTML
Of course the Civil War was about slavery, and everyone knew it at the time. No, Nikki Haley, it wasn’t about states’ rights, except to the extent that Southern states were trying to force Northern states to help maintain slavery — something that, as I’ll explain in a bit, has echoes in the current fight over abortion rights.So Haley deserves all the condemnation she received for initially refusing to acknowledge the obvious in a campaign stop last week.But it may be worth delving a bit deeper into the background here. Why did slavery exist in the first place? Why was…
How Atopic Dermatitis Changed My Family’s Life 091e9c5e820faac4091e9c5e820faac4FED-Footermodule_FED-Footer_091e9c5e820faac4.xmlwbmd_pb_templatemodule0144002/02/2021 01:57:340HTML
Ulcerative Colitis: Securing Support When You Need It Most 091e9c5e820faac4091e9c5e820faac4FED-Footermodule_FED-Footer_091e9c5e820faac4.xmlwbmd_pb_templatemodule0144002/02/2021 01:57:340HTML
I found it online: a weary, five-bedroom American Foursquare house on a block in Detroit that had seen better days. The blue tarp over the roof didn’t scare me. (It should have.) Neither did the price: $44,000, which would barely purchase a parking space in the Boston area, where I live.The house was not far from where my mother’s aunts stayed in the 1940s, when they moved up from Mississippi to escape Jim Crow. Nor was it far from Motown’s first recording studio — now a museum — or Henry Ford Hospital, an enormous complex that was making ambitious plans…
The Financial Impact of Multiple Sclerosis 091e9c5e820faac4091e9c5e820faac4FED-Footermodule_FED-Footer_091e9c5e820faac4.xmlwbmd_pb_templatemodule0144002/02/2021 01:57:340HTML
To the Editor:Re “Ukraine Doesn’t Need All Its Territory to Defeat Putin,” by Serge Schmemann (Opinion, Dec. 28):Mr. Schmemann is right that “true victory for Ukraine is to rise from the hell of the war as a strong, independent, prosperous and secure state, firmly planted in the West.”The road to that victory, however, will not be through an armistice that freezes the invading forces’ gains in place — even if Vladimir Putin were prepared to accede to such an outcome (and that is a very big “if”).A meaningful armistice that secures Ukraine’s well-earned sovereignty will be achieved only if Ukraine…