By Dr. David L. Katz

There has long been recognition in the U.S. that clinicians tend to under-treat serious, and especially chronic pain. This problem tends to become most recognizable when the source of pain is objective, such as cancer, and when concerns about the consequences of pain medication use- such as addiction- are most questionable, if not downright silly. When someone is likely to live for only a matter of months, for instance…

By Dr. David L. Katz

Coincidentally, just as the eyes of the world are directed toward South Africa for World Cup soccer, one of the more provocative of recent medical stories has issued from there. A female physician in South Africa has invented a condom with teeth designed as a last line of defense against rape…

By Dr. David L. Katz

A June 12 article in the New York Times entitled ‘A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures’ makes the case that ten years of genomic research have been profoundly disappointing. Announced with fanfare by then President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2000, the mapping of the human genome…