Simple tips for neck and low back pain
The concierge’s wife has back pain due to a prolapsed inter-vertebral disc (a “slipped” disc). Then, I woke up this morning with a stiff neck, due a poor sleeping posture (and a dose of dairy in the form of ice cream last night!) It got me to thinking I should write a little bit about [...]
american cancer society wrong but staying wrong
The American Cancer Society says it is not currently rethinking its stance on cancer screening, as was widely reported last week. Nor do they intend to restate their guidelines to emphasize the inadequacies of screening. It remains a sales hype document for a totally discredited procedure which Prof. Sam Epstein MD has condemned as “a [...]
antibiotic age is over
It’s over! The truth is, the comfortable world as we have known it for the last 60 years is coming rapidly to an end. Bacteria are deadly and the short period of time where we were able to control them is vanishing fast. Even as you read this, a new strain could be emerging somewhere, [...]
Bisphenol Also Causes Aggression
Unless you have lived on Mars these last few years, you will know the mounting concern over bisphenol A, a primary ingredient in plastics. In Letter From Serendipity issue #14 I reported on a straight bribe to get it through safety challenges with the FDA. Nobody in their right mind could possibly interpret the current [...]
Strep and OCD? The fumblings of science.
Sometimes knowledge and certainty is not easy to come by. You may have seen a recent breakfast piece in the USA, about a boy who had OCD (quite severe) but it turned out to be the consequence of a strep sore throat. Sep 24th, see the OCD video here. His mother Beth Alison Maloney wrote [...]
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