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A Good Study Gone Bad?

I’ve written before in these pages about the critical importance of clinical research, especially randomized controlled trials (RCT). These trials...

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How Low Is Too Low?

Aha! I was hoping that the title of this little essay might grab your attention. But what exactly am I referring to here? Blood pressure? Blood...

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Charging Into the Golden Years

Thirty years ago, my grandparents were still alive. They lived in a small house in central Illinois with a front porch and a swing. As they aged,...

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Memories Past and Future

Thirty years ago, I was a predoctoral intern in clinical psychology. A major puzzle was dementia—what goes wrong in the brain to cause a profound...

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Imagining Sisyphus Happy—Redux

The cover of the May 2013 edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases offered an appropriate analogy to reflect on the advances in infectious disease...

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