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Right Turn: Dateline Mont-Tremblant – TMM 2017

November 5-8, 2017, Mont-Tremblant, Quebec. The ski resort town of Mont-Tremblant was awash in rain when many of us arrived on Sunday, but the warm and welcoming Fairmont Hotel made up for Nature’s inhospitality. By all measures, the parts we could control were very...

Right Turn: Unwrapping bubble boy disease

Before Jake Gyllenhaal starred in the 2001 comedy Bubble Boy, there was a 1976 version starring John Travolta called The Boy In The Plastic Bubble. Both movies were inspired by the lives of David Vetter, who had severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), and Ted DeVita,...

Right Turn: Genes are this season’s hottest trend

In what feels like back-to-back news, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two gene therapies for cancer. The actual announcements happened seven weeks apart, but for patients, manufacturers, investors and shareholders, it’s like Christmas – over...

Right Turn: This is us

If you’ve stumbled upon this blog thinking you will be reading about the attractive and talented cast of the popular 2016 TV show on NBC, I suspect you will be very disappointed. While there is video for you below, you will not see any rippling muscles and you don’t...

Right Turn: A user’s guide to debunking health goop

Do you recognize the name Timothy Caulfield? How about if I tell you that he took on Gwyneth Paltrow and her Goop empire in his popular 2015 book Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? Caulfield is a professor of health law and science policy at the University of...