David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Covid’s ‘Silver Lining’: Research Breakthroughs for Chronic Disease, Cancer, and the Common Flu
The billions of dollars invested in covid vaccines and covid-19 research so far are expected to yield medical and scientific dividends for decades, helping doctors battle influenza, cancer, cystic fibrosis, and far more diseases. Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health NewsMarch 17,…
Heads up! The cardiovascular secrets of giraffes
Because of their height, giraffes require scarily high blood pressures — yet they escape the massive health problems that plague people with hypertension. Can clinicians learn from these animals? By Bob Holmes 5.19.2021 To most people, giraffes are merely…
From ‘arse-ropes’ to ‘flying venom’: A history of how we’ve come to talk about viruses and medicine
Symptom, virus, epidemic, quarantine. We’ve become used to these terms in 2020. But the “COVID-19 vocabulary” might have been very different had it not been for a few twists and turns in English history. If history had gone differently, for…
Scratching away: The complexities of chronic itch
Itching has myriad causes and mechanisms, many of which remain elusive. Scientists are making headway on parsing its biological underpinnings, in hope of better treatments. By Katherine Harmon Courage 11.6.2020 Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News It seems…
Can Phages Save Us…? Are There Life Saving Secrets?
Can phages save us? Really? From what? First, what are phages anyway and how do their near-magical powers work? Ready for the good viruses? About Bacteriophages… By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Their full title is a mouthful….
A Personal Cancer Cure? The Possibilities May Surprise You
A personal cure for cancer, a natural, non-invasive one, silently protects you? Maybe it saved your life, a miracle you knew nothing about. The idea’s not as strange as you think. By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Introduction:…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor