Walk on the Wild Side You have been part of a great biological experiment. You did not sign up for it. Yet it has changed the way you walk, the way you sleep, how you talk and socialize. Pretty much everything you do, in fact. In laboratories scientists make a major distinction between species born […]
To Sleep – Perchance to Drive (8/26/13)
Safe to Drive? The FDA has recently requested sleeping pill manufacturers conduct more “morning after” driving tests. Getting sleep is important, but remaining sleepy while operating a vehicle is another story. They should have spoken to the police in New Zealand. Recently police in Hamilton received an odd call. A woman called about her friend. […]
Bugs in the Brain (8/25/13)
Gums Want to avoid cardiovascular disease? One way is to keep your gums healthy. Teeth gnash, bite, rip and shred the foodstuffs that let us live. And the gums that support them are necessary to keep the critters in those foods from making us sick. But gums also become ill. About 30% of adults have […]
What You Don’t Know (8/5/13)
Stumped We didn’t know what was causing his death. When we walked on to the medicine wards of the San Diego VA many years ago, most interns were pretty ignorant. Yet we believed someone else knew what to do. As in what was causing the large stock of misery before us. In VA medical wards […]
Little Bit by Little Bit (7/31/13)
Gradually… How do people get healthy? One little bit by little bit at a time. So it seems to work with exercise. Gretchen Reynolds did a nice short review in the July 9th, New York Times on studies of short versus “long” exercise. One group studied – young men from Beijing. Monitors looked at changes […]