Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Cooking meat provided a huge evolutionary benefit on the plains of Africa for Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, allowing humans to become the dominant… Read More »Red Meat: The Evolutionary Benefit and the Modern Dilemma
Telling a patient she has cancer has become part of my job as a resident physician. In gynecology, cancer can affect women at very young… Read More »Managing Cancer at Work Program Wins Digital Health Award
I vividly remember one particular week during my medicine subinternship as the Week of the Pancreas. On the wards, I was caring for two patients… Read More »The Week of the Pancreas: Finding a Work-Life Balance
Eggs are a great source of nutrients. Eggs are too high in cholesterol. Meat will make you strong. Meat will lead to heart disease. The… Read More »Consistent Spicy Food Consumption May Lower Risk of Death
Imagine a scenario where a patient comes into the clinic with a suspected cancer. The clinician not only confirms that the patient does indeed have… Read More »Clinical trial to target cancer drugs to gene mutations for individualized therapy
What comes to mind when you hear the word “contagious”? For most of us, it’s infectious agents, such as viruses and bacteria. However, recent evidence… Read More »Columbia Researchers Discover Contagious Cancer in Clams
At the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting this past April, Donald Coffey, Ph.D., was honored with the ninth annual Margaret Foti Award… Read More »Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Donald Coffey Honored for Cancer Research, Mentoring