Avir Mitra

When evolutionary biologists studied the protein involved in fusing placenta cells, it didn’t look like it came from human DNA. It looked like a virus.

Doctors are trained to remove maggots from patients, but could it be that maggots are actually there to help?

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Half the money and none of the respect, a first-year resident says no wonder new doctors aren’t choosing to be generalists. ...

Ah…ah…ah…ah…Stayin’ Alive. The moment your heart stops pumping blood is the moment you stop ...

Beginner’s luck. It’s an idea that’s been around for generations. It even has its own Wikipedia page. But does it reall ...

A cross-country flight quickly turns into a medical student’s worst nightmare. As the long Thanksgiving weekend of 2014 drew ...

Over the past 15 years, scientists and physicians have come to realize that concussions are very serious injuries. In fact, about 20 perc ...

Can we hack the brain to make it more creative? I’ve always been fascinated by the creative pr ...

A little-known corner of the Affordable Care Act could usher home visits  by doctors back into the medical mainstream. A long ...

When physicians declare a patient as dead, what exactly do they mean? “Hi Mr. Smith, I’m Dr. Goldberg, I’m the t ...

A Pennsylvania doctor is turning medical trash into life-saving gold. It’s not every day that I discuss the best way to evad ...