Charles Schmidt

2 weeks ago | popsci.com | Charles Schmidt

Image: Scott Olson/Getty Images This article was originally featured on Undark. In a video posted to YouTube in September, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at U.S. health agencies that he said have allowed for the mass poisoning of American children.

2 weeks ago | holisticprimarycare.net | Charles Schmidt

By By Charles Schmidt (This feature was originally published on Undark.org on April 21, 2025)In a video posted to YouTube in September, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at US health agencies that he said have allowed for the mass poisoning of American children.

Oct 16, 2024 | magazine.hms.harvard.edu | Charles Schmidt

Craig Mermel, MD ’12 PhD ’10,was nervously waiting for his HMS entrance interview when a newspaper headline about the Mars Rover caught his eye. It was January 2004, and the spacecraft had just capped a seven-month voyage by landing on the red planet. The news sparked a conversation between Mermel and another jittery applicant — Ben Rapoport, MD ’13 — who was sitting nearby in the Dean’s lounge at Gordon Hall. “I remember thinking it was nice to have a distraction,” Mermel says.

Sep 24, 2024 | undark.org | Charles Schmidt

Jonathan Evans had finished his medical rounds at a local nursing home when he got a phone call. “Your patient is sexually inappropriate” a nurse at the facility told him. Evans is a geriatrician in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he had seen the patient, an elderly woman with mild dementia, earlier in the day. “She was fine,” he said. “Lovely visit.” The woman had since been discovered naked (but also alone) in another resident’s bedroom.

Mar 14, 2024 | nature.com | Charles Schmidt

Lire en françaisIn mid-2021, a deadly fungal disease called mucormycosis began surging in India’s crowded hospitals. Often referred to as ‘black fungus’, and caused by various common mould species, mucormycosis typically invades structures in the face and brain. But during the Indian outbreak, thousands of people in hospital — most of them undergoing steroid treatment for severe COVID-19 — developed fungal infections that festered unseen in the lungs1.