OK. I bet you haven’t considered this issue.
While you are ruminating and complaining about being under house arrest, trying to survive (i.e., avoid SARS-CoV-2) the pandemic, the world is undergoing another onslaught.
Continue reading Intended Circumstances?
So, I’m sitting here, almost breathing normally. (Trust me, my normal breathing is when you feel you are struggling for breath.) Having escaped 14 months without a visit from Streptococcus pneumomiae, my “friend” came for an extended stay. Given the fact that I was born with a compromised respiratory system, such diseases are the norm.
Continue reading Gasp. Sputter.
I now I’m an old fart. But, that’s why Iam so dismayed. I remember seeing people in Iron Lungs. I remember kids who died of whooping cough. I remember how devastating measles and the mumps were I remember when the Salk vaccine was the only thing between us and Polio- and then came the sugar cube and the Sabin vaccine. There were new vaccinations for whooping cough (pertussis) and none yet for the mumps or the measles.
Continue reading Give ’em your best shot!
A computer game is about to become an important medical research tool. Because all of you who play its games (I never found the time to join in), have provided massive data that can be mined to determine some pretty important facts. The game site? Lumosity.com. You know, the game that trains your brain. (To do what, I might ask?)
Continue reading Data Mining- here we come
It’s Kidney Week. OK. It’s kidney 5 days… Starting today and ending on the 10th. A ‘week’ to make all of us more aware of one of our biggest killers- certainly one of our most expensive diseases- that is, often, undetected. Why is that so? Because most subjects (they are not yet patients) exhibit no symptoms, until a crisis has developed.
Continue reading Kidney Week 2013
I’ve written before about one project at Google– the one aimed at determining why folks become terrorists. The basic concept is to determine why people join gangs and how that is similar to folks joining terrorist cells. In so doing, we should be able to find ways to stop folks from becoming terrorists. This venture is led by one smart young chap- Jared Cohen- who got his start in the Condy Rice’s State Department and stayed on under Hillary Clinton’s tenure, before heading up this new gig.
Continue reading I’m gonna live forever?
One of the amazing things about science is that what we thought we knew was right is often wrong. I know that can be disappointing, but to me it’s pretty exhilarating.
Continue reading A New Immunity?
When I was a baby, I not only was afflicted with severe allergies (asthmatic allergy), but celiac disease as well. (And, both my parents died of autoimmune diseases.) Which became a family joke (no one ever said I had a normal family) when it was clear that I loved cottage cheese, even though I was forced to eat it almost every morning, noon, and night. (My kids still swear I make cottage cheese with noodles, not noodles and cheese.)
Continue reading Celiac is an Autoimmune disease
So, I gave you Frank Kessler’s message on Friday. Today, I’ll talk about how the food industry has been manipulating food- and us- to keep us addicted to eating more- and more- and more. The industry specialists know that food’s addictive quality is a function of its salt content, fat content (squared), it’s “crunchability”, and a pleasing mouth feel.
Continue reading You are under their spell…
True confessions? Yes, that’s how I will start today. (But, I probably will end with a wonderful happy dance. Twice or so.)
Continue reading Many of you are not going to like this..
