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It’s sometimes hard to find a decent health/science article that not only covers a topic well, but, as a bonus, includes practical advice–if you don’t believe me, check out the widely reported, abysmal, First Bogus Award-winner of 2008! For those looking for good news, and solid health-news reporting, here’s a great article to kick off […] That’s right, hands where we can see them. Nice and slow. Step away from the idea. Whether it’s our habits, our health, or our relationships, we all want to heal something. What could be more tempting than a day where the world, all together, says “ready, steady, go!” and we charge en masse to our […] Here’s a Doc Gurley podcast on new flu facts, on Global Local Radio–for the listeners in the audience. Cheers, Doc in Your Ear As we head into the last days of the holiday season, some people are feeling just a wee bit overloaded. Here’s a Doc Gurley questionnaire to help you decide if you too might be fraying at the edges: Check which of these situations applies to you: 1) When another pedestrian wanders into the crosswalk just […] This week’s New York Times has a good article with new facts about the flu. Seems that there have been very few experiments looking at flu transmission because there weren’t any good (read: cheap, and non-biting) animal models for flu spread. Even if you could infect them with flu, most animals then didn’t transmit flu […] No country in the world has done a more thorough job of circumcising it’s newborn boys than the United States. In many places, if you don’t put a Do Not Cross Crime Scene tape across your new son’s genitals, he’ll get whisked off and trimmed before you know it. And yet, here we are with […] |
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