Aspirin-like Drug Inhibits Key Auditory Protein
Diflunisal (Dolobid) Blocks Key Protein Involved in Hearing A recent study concluded that the aspirin-like pain killer, Diflunisal (Dolobid) blocks a key protein involved in hearing, prestin.1 It is well known that aspirin blocks prestin, a protein which is involved in the functioning of the outer hairs of the cochlea, causing temporary hearing loss and […]
Making Sense of Your Intuition
Robyn M Fritz MA MBA We lost our ability to use our intuition Somewhere on our oh-so-human march towards progress we lost our ability to use our intuition. It became something “woo-wooey” that couldn’t be explained scientifically. What we forgot is that is exactly the point of intuition: as intuitive Laura Day says, it’s “nonlinear […]