Category: Mind, Body & Health
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Humorist Dave Barry’s journal of colonoscopy. (link from a friend who recently had hers) An excerpt: I left Andy’s office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called ”MoviPrep,” which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it…
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Dear Tony aka ‘RC’ #007 You have always stood side by side with me and I will never forget it. We will always be brothers. I always love you back All the best George Tenet (handwritten note by author addressed to Roland Carnaby or "Tony aka "RC #007" on the fly leaf of George Tenet’s…
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(Thanks to Ruchira for the idea and links) ‘Give us this day our daily meds’ has become the new grace all over the U.S. thanks to the agressive approach to sales and marketing of designer drugs by Big Pharma. While a huge amount of money has gone into finding cures for obscure conditions, the pharmaceutical…
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Long time readers will surely remember Matt who used to regularly entertain us with his comments and rhymes on A.B. We also had a link to his very funny (now discontinued) political blog Cerulean Blue. Well, Matt has not visited us for a long time. During his absence, he and I have touched base a few…
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Today is World Autism Awareness Day. Many debates are afoot among doctors, researchers and parents regarding the genetic and environmental causes of autism, as also why there appears to be a rise in its occurance. But what is agreed upon universally by all sides is the fact that parents of children with autism face a…
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A recent study published in pLOS suggests that the so-called efficacy of antidepressants may be in large part due to a placebo effect, which would imply that the same level of effective treatment could be achieved by offering placebos to the mild to moderately depressed patients who currently form a huge chunk of the lucrative…
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"Need a friend? Get a dog." This morning a newspaper article and a friend’s pictorial email got me thinking of dogs. The companionship of animals has therapeutic effects on us – easing of loneliness, lowering of blood pressure are known benefits. Those of us who spend time with animals know that very well. Nursing homes…
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I have repeated on several occasions that this blog was launched largely as an outlet for me to vent my displeasure with the atrocious administration of George W. Bush. As other authors climbed aboard and joined me in blogging, all of us were united in our disgust, disdain and disappointment with Bush-Cheney. The list of…
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Almost exactly a year ago I had posted an article here on the wisdom of making Gardasil vaccinations mandatory for teenage girls. Gardasil is a vaccine manufactured by Merck against the human papilloma virus (HPV) which causes cervical cancer, one of the most common forms of cancer affecting women. The vaccine has been found to…
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New approaches to cancer therapy now include complementary / integrative treatments which take into consideration innovations in nutrition, psychology and combination of different traditions of medicine. The combination drugs are very often a mix of Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, traditional herbs etc. and radio-chemo therapy. Leading cancer research and treatment centers such as M.D. Anderson in…
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Here are some news items that caught my attention in the last couple of days. They all relate to disease – of the body and the mind. Mosquito borne diseases like malaria, dengue, West Nile fever etc. are becoming widely prevalent again. Should we rethink the ban on DDT? Anna Manzanarez was a picture of…
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