A controversial but prominent advocate of immunizations in the United States is now becoming a vocal critic of nutrition. In advance of his new book, which advertisements and reviews suggest is a diatribe...
I am fascinated by telomeres. Telomeres aren’t some sort of underwater television or talking mirrors. Telomeres are caps on the ends of your DNA, your genes. They shorten with age. Eventually they are gone...
One of the most popular antibiotics, azithromycin, has now been shown to cause fatal heart rhythms in some people. You might have heard of it as ZITHROMAX, or in a conveniently packaged series of doses...
Needing to wear glasses has long been viewed as a mark of geekiness without any other real significance. “Just bad luck”, the medical experts said. “Your eyeball is just shaped wrong and there is nothing...
We have become increasingly isolated and fearful, unconcerned about others in our community and often afraid of “them”. Or have we? Like everyone else, I have been thinking a lot about the Boston...
Sports-related concussions have been gaining attention lately. Far, far too late in my opinion. It is almost like our thinking about this issue has been as impaired as the post-concussion brains of the...