Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

The CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations , by Frank Netter. When I started graduate school at Vanderbilt University , I had a stro...

1992 was a good year for me. My wife and I, who had been married for seven years, had two young daughters, and we had just bought a house i...

Big news this week in the field of magnetoreception . A paper titled “ Magnetic Characterization of Isolated Candidate Vertebrate Magnetorec...

Last week in this blog , I discussed the medical physicist Rosalyn Yalow , who was the second female to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

The radioimmunoassay is a sensitive technique for measuring tiny amounts of biologically important molecules, such as the hormone insulin ...

Elevated intracranial pressure often follows a traumatic brain injury . One way to lower pressure in the brain is to administer mannitol i...

Twenty years ago, I published a paper titled “ The Heating of Metal Electrodes During Rapid-Rate Magnetic Stimulation: A Possible Safety Haz...

In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I often introduce topics in the homework problems tha...

Andrew Huxley , the greatest mathematical biologist of the 20th century, died on Wednesday, May 30. Huxley won the Nobel Prize for his groun...

When revising Chapter 17 about Nuclear Medicine for the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I we...