No evil lasts a hundred years.
On the current pandemic, saturation affects the general population and front-line health care providers. There is a fed-up among people about SARS-CoV-2 and its many circumstances: political, economic, media, and health. All we need is breath!
It is not prudent playing to be Nostradamus or pretending to guess the future…
About the tragedy of the elderly besieged by the coronavirus.
‘Señores’ ―said Don Quixote― no so fast because in the nests of yesteryear there are no birds this year.
Dear all: While you are at home self-protecting from the crowned virus (Are you?), I died. I…
In the history of medicine, some issues caused great controversy when they surged. It usually occurs in science in general. Time is a great sculptor of life’s avatars. It usually resolves the conflicts, but, occasionally, some disputes are perennial. An excellent example of a non-resolved argument is Syphilis’s geographical origin…
The writing process is not always a creative art.
I want to vindicate a forgotten and excellent writer: Heinrich von Kleist.
Literature, like life, is unjust and cruel on many occasions. When I speak of literature, I am referring to the creative art of oral or written expression. I compare literature to life because, according to John, the evangelist…
Mutations are like identity cards of many viruses.
Viruses do not mutate because they want to do it.
It is a random phenomenon of nature.
Life’s avatars live in a combination fortuitous of four letters. They are Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine ©, Thymine (T) in the DNA, and A, G, C, and Uracil (U) in the RNA…
The coronavirus pandemic is added to the list of viruses that cause fatigue.
One of the most intriguing aspects of the current Betacoronavirus pandemic is persistence. This issue signifies a long duration of symptoms, signs, and analytical alterations. How long? During several weeks or months after acute infection. And it happens regardless of the intensity of the initial attack.
The persistence of symptoms…
Very good, Dr. Yildiz: You may be interested in this very recent article from Science (10.1126/science.abl6592).
Greetings,
A.
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its way.
The current pandemic is interesting in many aspects. For example, let put focus on the close relationship among different biological worlds. In concrete, on three life forms: microbes, animals, and humans.
Coronaviruses stand out as the protagonists of the first biological group. The second one is an assembly of several…
Here is the curious story of a humble rural surgeon and a cosmopolitan courtesan doctor.
According to Oscar Wilde, reality imitates art. But life’s drama is the greatest of fiction.
A remote intellectual thread ─a medical book─ linked his author with a certain Dr. Lopus. He was a physician, spy, and suspect of high treason against England.
Doctor Lopus inspired William Shakespeare to build one…
Viruses, like birds, come and go.
“Dark swallows will return
To hang their nest upon your balcony…”. (G.A. Bécquer).
The title is the first verse of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer’s famous poem collection, Rimas (1871). In Spanish (Rhyme nº 53), it begins: “Volverán las Oscuras Golondrinas.” My translation: “Dark Swallows Will Return.” …
