Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism , by James Clerk Maxwell. I am a big James Clerk Maxwell fan. In fact, I have made my living ...

I have written previously on the topic of cell phone electromagnetic radiation and cancer, but the issue remains a concern among the genera...

Are laser pointers safe? Apparently, it depends on the laser pointer. A recent article by Christine Negroni in the New York Times (Feb. ...

The current issue of the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine contains a minireview about “ The Role of Magnetic Forces in Biology and...

The 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology contains a list of fundamental constants in Appendix O. Russ Hobbie and I...

Periodically in this blog I have discussed the growing technetium-99m shortage that faces medical physics (see, for instance, here , here ...

The Framingham Heart Study is one of the oldest and most widely cited research studies in the history of medicine. Russ Hobbie and I menti...

Britton Chance died late last year. The website www.brittonchance.org states that Britton Chance, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., for more than 50 y...

The Quantum Ten: A Story of Passion, Tragedy, Ambition, and Science , by Sheilla Jones. Over the holiday break, I read The Quantum Te...

Chapter 8 in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology covers Biomagnetism : the measurement of the magnetic field p...