You may or may not be a sports fan. But today’s NFL trade deadline is a useful reminder to us all that some employers will stick by you through good and bad, while others will ditch you given the opportunity.  By 4 p.m., a host of players will…

Slowing down has always been hard for me. As a kid, I’d squirm out of my mom’s hugs telling her, “I gotta go play.”   While racing along, details often escape me. Which is why I overlooked the initial signs of my sarcoidosis. The pandemic has changed my…

Japanese researchers described a rare case study of neurosarcoidosis affecting only the central nervous system then concluded that while the condition is easy to treat, its diagnosis is difficult. The case report, “Isolated neurosarcoidosis presenting with multiple cranial nerve palsies,“ published in the journal Surgical…

Sometimes in relationships flaws become too glaring to ignore, which either leads to compromise or goodbye. That is now the case in my long love affair with meat.  I’ve made sacrifices over the years. My dates with the bad boys (red meat) aren’t nearly as frequent now.

Treatment with Rituxan (rituximab) provided marked disease remission and was well-tolerated by three patients with refractory neurosarcoidosis, according to a new case report. The study, “Successful therapy with rituximab in three patients with probable neurosarcoidosis,” was published in the journal Therapeutic Advances in Neurological…

A piercing scream woke me from a sound sleep that morning. It echoed from every corner of the house. My brain struggled to identify the source of the squealing before finally realizing it was coming from me. Intense pain was all over my body. Like a bad toothache, it came…

Martin Luther King Jr. Day falls on Jan. 20 this year. On this national holiday, Americans are encouraged to volunteer to serve their communities. If you are unable to participate, there’s a good reason to find other ways to be charitable this year: your health. Being charitable has…

Levels of specific immune complement proteins in blood and cerebrospinal fluid, including C3, factor B, and C5, showed strong potential for distinguishing people with neurosarcoidosis from those without the disease, according to a small study in the U.K. Combinations of several complement proteins yielded more discriminative potential, while combining…

I recently met a newly retired teacher at the laundromat. I was holding a book I had loved for the first 200 pages, but then lost interest in. She gave me the same advice she gave students who complained about boring books: Don’t finish it. Her colleagues always urged the…

I never know when it will happen. Someone speaks to me and their words land in my ears as if they are in some foreign language or secret alien code. I stand there with a blank look as my brain races to decipher the meaning of their words. If I’m…