Sleep and Behavior Research has long linked sleep and behavior – in adults. The picture in children has been cloudier. Now a new study of British data evaluated by American academic researchers, makes the picture clearer: Snoring is not good for children. The Avon Longitudinal Study Mothers and fathers filled out questionnaires on children aged […]
Privacy and profit – how health care records get used (3/7/12)
The Death of Privacy Privacy is dead – so we hear. Somewhere on the Net lies all the data on you ever uploaded. Much of that information is now going into the cloud – to servers all over the world. Now here’s the story of one Tennessee teacher. She was unhappy with School Board policies, […]
“Awake” – In dreams begin realities (3/2/12)
La Vida Es Sueno Is life a dream? Or do realities begin in dreams? “Awake,” NBC’s new drama, premiered on March 1st, 2012. One night police detective Michael Britten, played by Jason Isaacs, survives a horrific car wreck—but not his family. He becomes conscious and finds he’s living two distinct realities. In one his son […]
Is this really “The End of Illness”? (2/29/12)
We Need a New Health Paradigm Sorry. We’re not about to see “The End of Illness,” the title of the popular new health book written by oncologist/entrepreneur Dr. David Agus. Agus promises a lot. You will be able to “live robustly to a ripe old age of one hundred or more.” Then you will die, […]
Time rules life (2/27/12)
Time Rules Life The Romans knew it two thousand years ago – everything in life is timed. Your body is a hive of interlinked clocks. Some operate over less than a second, others work over seasons or years. Yet the most studied internal clocks are those that control our 24 hour day. Called circadian – […]