Dhruv Khullar
Writer at Freelance
Contributor at The New Yorker
physician & researcher @weillcornell | writer @newyorker
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., declared chronic diseases an “existential threat.” Then his agency terminated the world’s longest-running diabetes trial. In 1999, Peggy Bryant, a fifty-year-old oncology nurse in Boston, received a postcard asking whether she’d like to take part in a clinical trial aimed at preventing diabetes. Well, this is fitting, she thought. How many patients have I asked to enroll in trials?
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ourcommunitynow.com | Dhruv Khullar
Share In 1999, Peggy Bryant, a fifty-year-old oncology nurse in Boston, received a postcard asking whether she’d like to take part in a clinical trial aimed at preventing diabetes. Well, this is fitting, she thought. How many patients have I asked to enroll in trials?
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2 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Dhruv Khullar
In 1999, Peggy Bryant, a fifty-year-old oncology nurse in Boston, received a postcard asking whether she’d like to take part in a clinical trial aimed at preventing diabetes. Well, this is fitting, she thought. How many patients have I asked to enroll in trials?
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newyorker.com | Dhruv Khullar
In 1999, Oliver Sacks, the eclectic neurologist who was dubbed the “poet laureate of medicine,” received a letter from a pianist, Anna H. “My (very unusual) problem, in one sentence, and in non-medical terms, is . . . I cannot read words, and music gives me the same problem.” Sacks was known for handwritten correspondence, but he called Anna—“this seemed to be the thing to do”—and invited her to his clinic. Her vision was fine, yet her condition, “visual agnosia,” was worsening.
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In the @NewYorker Anniversary Issue, I write about what space travel does to the human body—and the scientists trying to figure out how to keep people healthy on a roundtrip journey to Mars... https://t.co/OiepSIJhJK
