The eternal struggle of finding a treatment that works for you is a complex and infuriating process (as evidenced by a Managed Health Executive article). Not everyone’s body responds to…
For anyone with a life-threatening disease, news of medical breakthroughs is bittersweet. On the one hand, clinical trials yield evidence for another weapon in doctors’ arsenals to fight the disease. But…
You know the Internet meme: There’s a woman, head in hand, silently weeping, or James Van Der Beek, from his Dawson’s Creek days, on the edge of crying big elephant…
It’s always exciting when two giants of their fields join together to accomplish something. When Pixar and Disney joined forces to bring us the best animated films since… ever, the…
The love between a father and his daughter is pretty unique. You may remember the story from a few years back of Emily Heaton asking her father, Jeremiah, if she…
Cancer treatment, much like golf, is all about the follow-through. It is true that chemotherapy and surgery are important. However, it’s the maintenance therapies that keep people living for years…
Proponents of medicinal marijuana got a little more ammunition earlier this year according to a blogger on Scienceblogs. However, some have claimed that cannabinoids cure everything from glaucoma to gallbladder,…
A Swiss Army Knife®. A Leatherman® multi-tool. A Dremel® tool. We, as people, love to have tools with multiple functions. The Swiss Army Knife in my pocket boasts 19 tools.…
Cancer. This word can inspire fear in even the most stalwart of individuals. How many other diseases are known by a phrase involving just the first letter? The Big C.…
Whenever I feel the stress of life getting to me, I hop over to YouTube and search “random acts of kindness” or “heartwarming acts.” Some of the results? The police…
Whenever it comes to a controversial issue, I always ask myself: Who benefits? In most cases, it’s not all that hard to figure it out. But sometimes, it seems like…
All you have to do is look around. If you do, you’ll see the rate of progress accelerating. Look at anything modern. Some people liken this to Moore’s Law concerning…
Most things have multiple functions. The tire iron you use to jack up the car when changing a flat tire? It can be used as a self-defense weapon if an…
Making scientific discoveries must be a lot like trying to map a coastline in the dark. There’s a lot of bumping into things and getting your feet wet in the…
Sometimes, all it takes to succeed is knowing that someone is depending on you. For example, numerous studies have shown that there is better quality of life for elderly people…
Don’t eat that! Eat this instead. Some diets recommend low fat. Some endorse high protein. Some forbid carbohydrates. Some praise those same carbohydrates. Some limit fiber. It’s so confusing figuring…
Medical malpractice. These two words strike fear into the hearts of millions of doctors all over the world, but especially in litigious societies, such as the United States. Not all…
Have you ever noticed how frequently things get compared to the same small group of ideas? When trying to point out that something isn’t as complex as it appears, you…
In the mid-1990s, many in the United States were first exposed to the somewhat strange juxtaposition of choreographed leg flailing and still upper bodies. This was, of course, Riverdance. This…
At some point in the past, we decided that it would be important to divide things up when we study them in school. For a long time, all science was…
We’ve all been there. In the grocery store or at the mall or at the amusement park, when a child starts to act out, much to the chagrin of the…
They say, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” This maxim goes for everything from nuclear technology (the Manhattan Project was a direct result of World War II) to the Snuggie®…
Peer pressure. Celebrity endorsement. Expert testimony. Gut feelings. Impulsivity. Shared experiences. People do a lot of things for a lot of different reasons. Ad agencies bank on some of the…
They say that technology has made life easier, faster, more comfortable, and on and on and on. Who this “they” is, I don’t know. While technology has made certain parts…
The process of getting a treatment approved by the FDA is long and involved. Needless to say, the process is so complicated to protect us, the people who will be…
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