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I'm interested in many topics but you'll mainly see me writing about health, science and public policy. Everyone needs a niche.
I enjoy travel and am profoundly thankful for the friends I have made in Belize, Sweden, Taiwan, Hungary and elsewhere and all of their teachable moments. I also can't do without photography, books and hiking. I hope someday to combine all of my likes and produce a readable and entertaining memoir that shows the interconnectedness of all.
It is my firm belief that independent journalists and citizen journalists are doing the jobs that traditional media used to do: informing and enlightening, presenting opposing views on an issue, keeping politicians honest, and shining a light on injustice and malfeasance.
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Six “Mad as Hell Doctors” from Oregon will embark on a cross country road trip Sept. 8 to demand Congress enact a single payer system.
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Other studies have found a correlation between household pesticide use and leukemia. In this study, scientists analyzed the urine of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and found a higher concentration of pesticides compared with healthy controls.
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Americans that oppose health care reform on the basis that it introduces socialism do so while perpetuating their serf status.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Montreal seized thousands of counterfeit pills intended for the erectile dysfunction market. The illegal sale of prescription and counterfeit drugs online and on the street are on the rise in Canada and elsewhere.
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Single payer advocates are taking to the streets to create awareness of another option for health care reform: single payer or “Medicare for All."
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Bill Gates became hooked on the work of Nobel physicist Richard P. Feynman 20 years ago and wanted to bring his work to a wider audience. Now you can watch the lectures given by Feynman, the bongo-playing-artist- physicist online for free.
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An amendment attached to a major federal health reform bill may clear the way for states to enact single-payer legislation. Ten state legislatures have introduced single-payer bills.
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A study found that domestic cats use amplified purring to solicit food from their human companions. Researchers believe cats exploit humans' protective instincts through not-so-subtle cries for food.
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CERN, the European Organization
for Nuclear Research, and its particle physics laboratory were at the center of the plot in the latest movie directed by Ron Howard, Angels & Demons. CERN responds to public questions about antimatter and more.
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Iranians and Iranian-Americans gathered in Minneapolis Wednesday to show support for the protesters in Iran. Their faces expressed anger, resolve, sadness and pride.
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Something handy for cautious consumers: Agency creates widget that automatically updates list of thousands of U.S. food products containing peanuts under recall.
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Italy honors Iraq as the birthplace of civilization through a new virtual museum featuring 70 of the antiquities on display at the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad.
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Insurance firms are profiting from billions of investments in the tobacco industry while collecting health, life and long-term care premiums from individuals. And smokers pay the highest premiums of all.
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Neuroscientists compare the memory loss described in Gabriel García Márquez' novel "100 Years of Solitude" to that exhibited by patients with semantic dementia.
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An oncology association recommends women reduce their risk for developing breast cancer by taking tamoxifen or raloxifene.
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Teams of scientists led by Netherlands and U.S. investigators have identified genetic variants which affect the age when a woman reaches menopause.
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A teen's capacity for logic has been growing steadily over the last 50 years, at least in Sweden. The University of Gothenburg has been testing 13 year olds for 50 years using the same testing instrument.
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A nine-year study of 62,000 peoples' eating habits found that eating well-done, charred meat can increase risk of pancreatic cancer by up to 60 percent.
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Is something eating you? What are the health risks from bed bugs? How can you prevent bed bugs? How do you get rid of them?
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World Laughter Day continues to spread across the globe, with events planned in dozens of countries. Laughter is the cheapest therapy, and some would say the most effective way to better health and even world peace.
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