Beam Me Up, Doc

Painless state-of-the-art therapy easily removes skin cancer.

When he retired 23 years ago, Herbert Robinson traded in the seat he had long occupied as a crane operator for one on a motorcycle. Over the next 20-plus years, Herbert put an “unheard of” number of miles on that bike. “After I got down here to Florida, I rode for more than 100,000 miles,” the 87-year-old New York native […]

A Study of Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited disorders affecting the red blood cells. Healthy red blood cells are disc-shaped and smooth, and glide easily through even small blood vessels to provide oxygen to the body’s tissues. Red blood cells affected by sickle cell disease are rigid, sticky and crescent-shaped, resembling the farm implement called a sickle. The exact number […]