The First Cell, Part 3: Force Majeure — Oncologists are as desperate as their patients

by Azra Raza All of the articles in this series can be found here. Everyone agrees that early cancer detection saves lives. Yet, practically everyone is busy studying end-stage cancer. Reviewing the history of carcinogenesis from 1911 on, I become unspeakably, depressed. Demoralized. For fifty years, massive intellectual and financial resources have been invested pursuing…

Rx: Emily Post and Laura Claridge: Two Women Possessing the Genius of Etiquette

Azra Raza reviews Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners by Laura Claridge Laura Claridge’s enormously enjoyable, carefully researched, exhaustively annotated, insightful and engaging biography Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of Manners, made two points very clear to me; first, from birth to death, we humans need constant…