Beyond COVID: Journal Watch’s top medical stories of 2020, explained
Think of it like the Grammys, except there are no acceptance speeches, bold fashion statements, or entertainment — unless you find research statistics to be entertaining.
Dr. Craig Bowron
Dr. Craig Bowron is a Twin Cities internist and writer.
This Thanksgiving, go for the stuffing — and skip the COVID-shaming
We all have choices to make about how we live our lives, and how healthy we are. But let’s agree that no one deserves to get COVID.
Same plot, different props: Radicalization then and now
Let’s use some of what we’ve learned in the last century to foil both the plot and the props.
There will be blood: Minnesota’s state bird — the mosquito — is living large in 2014
“What we had this spring was a whole bunch of snowmelt pools, which led to a whole bunch of snowmelt pool-exploiting mosquito species,” says mosquito and tick expert David Neitzel.
Fungal meningitis: How a wimpy, ubiquitous black mold turned to the dark side
Exserohilum rostratum is the scary character responsible for the multi-state outbreak of fungal meningitis cases linked to tainted steroid preparations.
