Archives for April 2006

Some of my readers have been surprised at my tentative endorsement of genetically modified food. They say it doesn't fit my "old-school" band of medicine…

Despite the scoffings of some of my readers and peers (or as close to them as there may be) in the health publishing field, I've been warning about unnatural sex selection as a fast-approaching reality for years.

According to an Associated Press article from March 29th, a Las Vegas company called American Medical Response has sunk a quarter of a million dollars not into roulette or blackjack, but on an extra-large ambulance designed specifically to carry obese patients. The rig is equipped with winches, gurneys and ramps capable of handling patients as heavy as 1600 pounds!

In the last Daily Dose, I wrote to you about a large-scale benzene scare in soft drinks in the UK. Britain's equivalent to the FDA here in the states has pulled 26 varieties of soda pop from store shelves – some of which contained more than 30 times as much cancer-causing benzene (a flammable, oil-based solvent) as the levels allowed in drinking water.

Between the sugar and coloring agents in most soda and the artificial sweeteners in "diet" varieties, there's plenty in pop to pop off about. And as some of you may know, I've been doing just that for a long time…

In this latest twist on psychology, patients are "prescribed" a course of motion pictures that are hand-selected by a therapist based on the particular patient's issues and challenges.

Beware the Ides of March, an unnamed seer told Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play…

Despite the modern American mania about drinking more tap or bottled water (all of it fluoridated, it seems) I clued you in on in the last Daily Dose…

If you've been a reader of mine for any length of time at all, you already know how I feel about consuming more water than is absolutely necessary.

Anyone who knows you-know-what from Shinola will tell you the same thing: If you've got a stumper of a problem on your hands… Sleep on it.