For every human cell in your body, there are ten bacterial cells living on or in it. So it's an open question whether "you" are …
Author: Bruce Goldman
Ancient mummy meets modern medicine (and daddy, too) at Legion of Honor
State-of-the-art radiological scans of 2,500-year-old mummy on display at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco have yielded an amazing, high-resolution tour through the mummy's …
Rush to judgment regarding the state of U.S. health care?
"The U.S. health care system, although it's the costliest in the world, doesn't even deliver the goods when it comes to delivering health." That's the …
A question to ask your doctor
Here's an idea for everybody: Call or email your doctor and ask him or her, "Are you going to get vaccinated for the H1N1 influenza …
It's official: There's a swine-flu pandemic
The World Health Organization has officially declared a swine-flu pandemic. While somewhat anti-climactic from a news perspective, the action does promise to spur accelerated development …
Old blood scores against new pig-brewed flu
It looks as though older people have been around long enough to have been exposed to influenza viruses at least somewhat similar to the H1N1 …
New flu, but who knew?
Photo by Eneas So, did you get that flu shot yet that you were supposed to get five or six months ago? A report today …