April 2025 • Volume 18, No. #4 From the Editor If you are trained in healthcare, chances are you know a lot about proper handling of sharp surgical tools and needles to avoid transmitting pathogens such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV and others. Safe handling of...
March 2024 • Volume 18, No. #3 From the Editor This month we take a look at one of the most demanding procedures in cardiac surgery: Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, or CABG (pronounced “cabbage”). Sometimes referred to as heart bypass surgery, CABG is a surgical...
January 2025 • Volume 18, No. #1 From the Editor Lately my sweetie and I have been watching the science fiction / psychological thriller “Severance” on Apple TV+. In it, a mysterious corporation implants devices in its employees’ brains to completely...
December 2024 • Volume 17, No. #12 From the Editor It’s time for our annual giving issue! As we prepare to celebrate our own holidays here at home, we once again turn our focus to the charity NIFA has been supporting for many years: Mission to Heal (M2H). It’s a...
November 2024 • Volume 17, No. #11 From the Editor The other night my guy and I were re-watching a classic film from 1940, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca.” A major plot point relied on the assumption that cancer was an imminent death sentence. It struck me how much...
