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Oooh, there are just some kinds of evil that we’d all love to get our hands on – you know what I mean, the old “give-me-10-minutes-alone-in-the-interrogation-room-with-the-cameras-turned-off” urge. When it comes to serial killers, some have a lot to answer for. One of the worst of the worst just took a blow to the nuts, and […] Are there times when your body over-does it in the killing germs department? There’s a new argument that we should, in addition to treatment, be suppressing the human response to mega-infections by giving immune-suppressing drugs (specifically steroids). These studies run counter to the argument that our bodies know what’s best (and don’t tend to overdo […] Ready to scratch your head in bafflement? Here is a beautiful, well-designed, thorough study with every criteria you could possibly want in order to get a clear answer. What’s more, this study looked at a pressing, serious, common issue that is near to all our hearts (so to speak) – does exercise and eating well […] Diabetes treatment is becoming more, not less, controversial. Here is another in a series of recent articles trying to answer the question – how low should you go in trying to get glucose levels as close to normal as possible? In other words, the diabetes limbo game. In our first study, the glucose measurement used […] U.S. News and World Report’s Women’s Health writer has done the almost-impossible – she wrote a concise, informed, dispassionate article about the latest developement in abortion access – the Do-It-Yourself Abortion (pills only, thankfully) available online for women who live in countries where abortion is outlawed. Check it out for some interesting, excellent healthcare coverage […] I once talked to a patient about how he spends his days – specifically how much of his day he devoted to his health (exercise, meds, hygiene, etc.), all in an effort to get him to feel more committed to changing behaviors that were hurting him. I said, “because, in the end, all any of […] |
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