Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

When preparing the 6th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , I like to scan the literature for new medical advances. Wh...

Last November, right after the Presidential election, I wrote a blog post about trusted information on public health . In that post, I featu...

As Gene Surdutovich and I were preparing the 6th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , we decided to update the discus...

Everything Is Tuberculosis , by John Green. Recently I read the current bestseller Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence o...

“ The Magnetic Field of a Single Axon: A Comparison of Theory and Experiment.” Forty years ago this month, I published one of my first scien...

David Cohen: The Father of MEG ,  by Gary Boas. Gary Boas recently published a short biography of David Cohen , known as the father of magn...

In Section 16.9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the linear-quadratic model. The linear-quadr...

Sometimes a toy model (a simple model that strips away all the detail to expose the underlying mechanisms more clearly) can be useful. Toda...

One of the homework problems in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology (Problem 31 in Chapter 16) introduces a toy model for the Br...