Category: Mind, Body & Health
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Could dwarfs hold the key to cancer therapy? Sounds promising.
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Every few months, along with the water bill, I receive a little brochure from the water company that assures me that the level of coliform and fecal bacteria in the water that flows through the taps has been tested at well below required levels. Ditto for the amounts of lead and other heavy metals and…
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I feel like it’s almost irresponsible of CNN to publish this article. A new study finds that many Americans have that same kind of faith. In the study, 57 percent of randomly surveyed adults said God’s intervention could save a deathly ill family member even if physicians said treatment would be futile. However, just…
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After hurricane Gustav’s glancing blow derailed the Republican convention for a day, the news media and tabloids are all over hurricane Bristol, the real storm which is at the center of this year’s GOP festivities that threatens to expose the hypocrisy of the party’s "Family Values" bigots. Of course, the sanctimonious right wing morality brigade…
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Some time ago I had posted an article on the possible correlation between paternal age and increased risk of autism among the progeny. In the comments section readers brought up other disorders which too some suspect, are related to the age of the father. Reader Leslie has requested that I bring this topic to the…
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Depending on the topic at hand, our writings frequently reflect our personal feelings, opinions and experience to varying degrees. But that does not necessarily make all our stories "personal." In my inaugural post I had promised readers that Accidental Blogger would serve mostly as a conversational tool between its author [there was only one author at…
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Before there was television or the Internet, in the days of pamphleteering, public health announcements were often made available through posters. Dangers of malaria, dog bite, bad dental hygiene, poor sanitation and STDs were advertised through eye catching imagery and pithy messages. Some of these posters are now on display at the National Academy of…
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World famous heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey died on Friday night in Houston. I had a short post on DeBakey a few months ago when he was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. More details of his life and work here in the Houston Chronicle.
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Ruchira nudged the A.B. authors to respond to a recent story in Wired, the magazine that by my lights utterly confuses its content with its ads. "Tell us if you agree or disagree" with the story, she asks, noting incidentally that she agrees. I’m pretty sure I disagree. First, however, I have to decide what…
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I came across two interesting articles about the workings of the human brain, one a common enough condition and the other I heard of for the first time in my life. The Tip of the Tongue moment is something we are all familiar with. What begins as an occasional event in our youth, becomes frustratingly…
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