DMD Insights

It is unfortunate that the prevailing view on chronic illness is that it simply “happens” to someone, and that the best one can do is to cope with the difficulties attached, comply with treatment, and hope for the best.  This is perhaps exacerbated by medical language; a patient is said to have been “diagnosed with”…

Some therapeutic advancements are so central to the diseases they treat that they themselves define a specific era in the therapeutic history of the disease, even as physicians continue to search for a definitive cure.  Some therapeutic discoveries have redefined and reinvigorated modern medicine as we know it. Take, for example, the discovery of penicillin,…