Collecting My Thoughts

I doubt that I'm the only one who is questioning the "new normal" for work, church and education, let alone reliance on virtua...

The U.S. has joined many other countries in grounding the 737 Max jet after two crashes killing a total of 346 people in 5 months. I often w...

“Commensal microbes that live on and in us are critical for our health. By cell numbers, we are approximately 90 percent microbial, and the ...

They are all similar, and they all sell books.  This article from 2008 in WebMD lists the components. These articles all have enriched link...

“CDC and medical experts state that measles is very dangerous: for every 1,000 cases of measles there will be approximately 2 deaths. But th...

I hate the way Ebola is being politicized, both by the right and the left. There's a Democrat action group that's made a ridiculou...

The news and talk shows are wall to wall Ebola. Conservative talkers are trying to make Obama look bad without saying so, and the Liberals a...

In 1984, the HIV virus was identified by the U.S. Public Health Service and French scientists. In 1985, a blood test to detect HIV was licen...

There may be an insurance gap, gender gap or access gap for the mentally ill, but that isn't what made them ill. There may be some peopl...

There is now a TB strain that is totally drug resistant (TDR-TB) to add to the extensively drug resistant (XDR-TB) strain, identified in 200...

Worldwide, hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease and death, accounting for up to half of all cases of cirrho...

Medical schools are being pressured to include more course work in an already jammed curriculum to address LGBT barriers to good health. The...

I hope everyone contributing to buy nets and t-shirts noticed the article about malaria in today's Wall St. Journal. It's about hig...

Chikungunya Fever and Elephantiasis Thanks to Rachel Carson and her misguided, unscientific book Silent Spring , these two diseases continu...