Why Vaccines Matter
Whooping cough is on the rise in Texas… If kids are getting the shot, then why is whooping cough making a deadly resurgence in Texas, as well as in other parts of the country. In all of 2011, there were 961 reported cases statewide. Through April of this year, though, there have been 424 cases, [...]
The Controversial Placebo Effect of Antidepressants
The article linked below captures many facets of the complicated beast known as psychiatry under the influence of corporate pressure from Big Pharma. In particular what struck me were the descriptions of how colleagues of Irving Kirsch, whose research exposes that antidepressants on the whole are no more effective than placebo, have been ostracized and [...]
Another Doctor Gag Rule
Before I was a nurse, I was an Emergency Medical Technician, and later, the OSHA nurse in one of my jobs. One day I was working in the community, and asked to deal with a situation. A man who lived in a building thought he was exposed to some floor-stripping chemicals used in a renovation. [...]
Race, Obesity and Willpower
Alice Randall has an op-ed in the New York Times that touches the third rail of weight, race and body image, Black Women and Fat. I’m not going to take the easy shot at her focus on behavior change and healthy eating. America as a whole needs to reject the junk diet that is killing [...]
S. Korea curbs U.S. beef sales after confirmation of mad cow disease – CNN.com
Maybe it’s a sign from above that we should all just stop eating beef. For what it’s worth, eating beef is also associated with higher rates of several cancers including pancreatic and breast cancer, and many other of the reproductive cancers. Eating hamburger also may involve eating pink slime. So all in all, I’d say [...]
Soul Food Junkies
Hate to feel like I’m just a cut-and-paste blogger, so I want to mention that I enjoyed a local screening of ‘Soul Food Junkies’. Byron Hurt, the documentary maker, came to Rhode Island and showed his film at Miriam Hospital to health care workers, and later at an event open to the public at the [...]
Black and White Twins
This is an interesting story of how one family in England dealt with racism and ostracism when they had a very unique set of twins — Daniel and James. Black and white twins | Life and style | The Guardian.
Correlation n’ Causation
Can a Brussels Sprout save your life? I want to believe it’s true, but my inner skeptic says this is another superficial Yahoo science headline by someone too busy to read or think… Veggies Improve Breast Cancer Survival–Study Chinese women who ate cabbage, broccoli and leafy greens saw improved survival rates after breast cancer than [...]
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