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For centuries, certain cultures have customarily added milk to fresh-brewed tea – but in recent years, scientists in laboratories around the world have been “hotly” debating whether this seemingly-benign practice may actually inhibit some of the already well-established health benefits of tea drinking. The topic arose recently in the oncology clinic (of all places), when […]
January 15, 2012
Are you sitting down as you’re reading this? If not, you may want to – chances are, if you’re browsing this on your iPhone while walking to the fridge, you’ll forget what you were reading about by the time you get back (and you may even forget what brought you to the kitchen in the […]
October 30, 2011
October is health literacy month, and I would be remiss not to take a moment to give this issue the attention it deserves. In his book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, astronomer Carl Sagan wrote: “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone […]
August 12, 2011
Bombs, concealed weapons, spare change at the beach – metal detectors were designed to help us find all sorts of things, but what if I told you they could also pick up on genetic diseases? While not practical (or medicolegally acceptable), they may provide a clue to the diagnosis of a rare inherited disorder. The […]
May 12, 2011
April was National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Month (or National Donate Life Month), and though I campaigned as best I could while studying, I didn’t have time to draft a decent post. Fortunately, it’s not too late for me to dedicate a post to National Osteoporosis Awareness Month. Osteoporosis is a poorly understood concept […]
April 7, 2011
Recently, I was speaking with my father and the topic of his next colonoscopy came up. After I gave him due praise for scheduling his appointment, he asked if it’s really worth it to have one done as often as is recommended. I’d like to share with you some of the things I told […]
March 22, 2011
Professional conservative troll Ann Coulter attempted to discredit fears regarding Japan’s nuclear disaster during a segment aired this week on The O’Reilly Factor by telling viewers “radiation is good for you.” Coulter claimed that a “stunning number” of physicists believe radiation is good for you, and went on to cite several studies that revealed a […]
March 15, 2011
Recently, a friend sent me a text message with a rather conservative back-of-the-envelope calculation putting the number of lecture slides we’ve seen since October 2009 at roughly 41,000. Talk about PowerPoint Hell. That got me thinking: how many questions have I answered in that same time period? Here’s the conservative estimate, not including quizzes, workshops, […]
March 8, 2011
Last year, I lived near a pretty cool store geared towards “science enthusiasts.” I signed up for their newsletter, mostly because I’m a nerd. I never really expected anything amazing to show up in my inbox – how wrong I was: Surprisingly, that’s not the worst offender in the “Unintentionally Perverted Toys for Children” […]
March 2, 2011
This is a great, concise article about 4 of the most commonly taken OTC supplements, written by Dr. Toni Brayer at her blog Everything Health (please visit from here or my links section). I liked it so much, I asked Dr. Brayer for permission to cross-post it. I included one note on omega-3 fatty acids, […]
Abnormal Facies 
September 22, 2012
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