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Norman Lavin, M.D, PhD., UCLA Medical School

Crohn’s Disease:  An interview with Ron Bahar, MD

Jews, industrial pipe cleaners, and osteoporosis

Anti-circumcision:  Is this equal to anti-Semitism?

Believe it or not, an American city, San Francisco, is voting to proscribe one of the central rituals of an entire religious community, the Jewish people, who have been circumcising male infants since the time of Abraham.

KAFKA, MODIGLIANI, HITLER, AND TUBERCULOSIS

Tay-Sachs disease: An interview with Stephen Cederbaum, M.D.

Preimplantation diagnosis of Jewish genetic diseases: An interview with Snunit Ben-Ozer, M.D.

Introduction to Jewish Genetic Diseases: Part 2

An introduction to Jewish genetic diseases: Part I

The Shofar saves a Rabbi’s life

A challenge to the Jewish community from a patient with a genetic disease

Mahjong, Deep-Vein Thrombosis and Jewish Women

Cod liver oil, vitamin D and the Jewish mother

Familial Mediterranean Fever: An Interview with Terri Getzug M.D.

Persian Jews and Genetic Diseases

Paging Dr. House…A Jewish infant is severely ill

Jews, Genes and the Talmud

SCHMALTZ and GREBENES: A Medical Conspiracy

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Norman Lavin, M.D.,PhD.
Clinical Professor of Endocrinology
Director of Endocrinology Education
UCLA Medical School

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