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Patrick Tucker, an editor at The Futurist, posted a request on the Quantified Self Forums for “astounding” predictions based on self-quantification. He is writing a book about using data t o...
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Spy magazine iPad archive. On the magazine’s Facebook page, Drew Friedman (the illustrator, who worked for Spy) asks, “Whatever did happen to Graydon Carter?” Echinicea reduces respi ratory...
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Teams are a feature of healthcare, and nowhere more so than in pain management. This is because, at least for chronic pain, no single profession can claim to have all the answers. Many of us...
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In honor of May as Mental Health Awareness Month, I'm hosting a "Living with Depression" book giveaway at Goodreads.com. Go check it out! .goodreadsGiveawayWidget { color: #555; font-famil y...
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Parkinson’s disease often runs in families and some of the genes responsible have been identified. One is called PINK1. A new fruit fly model uses fruit flies with a similar genetic defect. Patr ik...
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Here is a summary/directory of my posts about what I call the umami hypothesis — the idea that we must ingest plenty of microbes to be healthy. My Watts Towers. The easiest way to ingest plenty of...
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Probiotics reduce/prevent diarrhea caused by antibiotics. News article. The abstract says “The pooled evidence suggests that probiotics are associated with a reduction in AAD [antibiotic associa ted...
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At its annual meeting this week, the American Psychiatric Association did two wonderful things: it rejected one reckless proposal that would have exposed nonpsychotic children to unnecessary and d angerous...
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I have already linked to this 2004 article (“How Ignorant Doctors Kill Patients”) by Russell Blaylock, a neurosurgeon, but after rereading think it deserves a second link and extended quot ation...
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Chronic pain is abnormal. Living well with chronic pain seems a myth, a bit of an impossibility. After all, chronic pain starts with the kind of pain that most people would expect to go away – a cute...
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