Wearable Health Tech: Inventing Necessity?
Throughout the long, punctuated ascent of humanity to the pinnacle of planetary power (for better or worse), necessity has, proverbially, been the mother of invention. …
Healing, and Human Touch
Early this summer, I spent several days in a hospital bed, tethered to an IV, with what proved in retrospect to be anaplasmosis (a nasty bit of tick-borne …
The REAL BULLETS Are The Ones YOU CAN’T SEE
We all follow the news to some degree and hear the stories of bullets flying in places like Ferguson, Missouri. But there are, other “bullets” we can’t …
The Pope, the Planet, and How PUBLIC HEALTH is Affected
As far as I can tell, there seem to be two basic religious attitudes toward the planet. One may be summed up along the lines …
TV Miracles and the Land of Dr. OZ
Mehmet Oz and I have long been friends. This is because I actually know the man, not because I am an ardent fan of daytime …
The Measles Debate – Reasons, Rights and Treason
The rather intense media focus on measles has predictably evolved into a protracted story about immunization. The story about immunization in turn has devolved into …
Are We Sitting on a Major Health Risk?
The big medical news this week was that sitting hours a day is taking years from our lives, whether we exercise or not. We have heard similar things …
Fatness, Fitness, and Fiddling Around
A new study about physical activity, obesity, and mortality has been propagating so many headlines and so much commentary, it’s pretty much a given that if you …