Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

In the November 13, 2020 episode of Shark Tank ( Season 12 , Episode 5), two earnest entrepreneurs, Ken and Allyson, try to persuade five ...

Voodoo Science , by Robert Park These days—when so many people believe crazy conspiracy theories , refuse life-saving vaccines , promote alt...

In last week ’ s post , I discussed the Bragg peak : protons passing through tissue lose most of their energy near the end of their path. In...

In Chapter 16 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the Bragg peak . Protons are also used to tre...

Alan Magee . Reproduced from the website www.americanairmuseum.com . On January 3, 1943, airman Alan Magee fell 22,000 feet (6700 meters, ...

When a particle travels faster than the speed of light, it emits Cerenkov radiation . This phenomenon has resulted in new medical imaging ap...

Why is my field— bioelectromagnetics —so prone to pseudoscience ? I don’t know. But I do know that we need to be more skeptical about altern...

I suspect you’ve seen some of the recent ads for Inspire , a new treatment for obstructive sleep apnea . An Inspire TV ad.  https://www.yout...

“The Bidomain Model of Cardiac Tissue: Predictions and Experimental Verification” In the early 1990s, I was asked to write a chapter for a ...

A drawing of insulin by David Goodsell , from Wikipedia .   Chapter 10 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology discusses feedb...