If you are currently taking antidepressants and believe they work for you, you’re not going to like this at all. In fact, recent revelations publsihed by the New England Journal of Medicine seem to reveal that your belief in your antidepressant may well be the only reason it works for you.
Alternet.org covers the studies in […]

Some long-time readers of this blog will remember our son’s life-and-death struggle against MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) three years ago. A few others will know I also fought a similar infection last summer, and that Michael wrestled with a skin-level infection last fall. Though our son’s infection was much more serious and was treated through […]

“I’m not fat. I’m suffering from the disease of obesity.”
These were the words that went through my head this morning as I read this headline at Yahoo: Obesity must be treated as disease -expert. And while I may admire the intentions of the physicians, researchers, and others involved with the 14th European Congress on Obesity, […]

Originally written and published in May 2005.
On stem cells, roses, and the fallacies inherent in the “culture of life” philosophy.
All life has intrinsic value.
I was inspecting our new roses this weekend, removing pests, fertilizing the soil after this month’s nearly incessant rains, removing any weeds lest the beautiful, fragrant flowering hedge in my dreams […]

According to this report from Reuters today, “Health insurance premiums will cost families and employers an extra $922 on average this year to cover the costs of caring for the uninsured.”
How does this happen, you may be asking? Well, it’s what is otherwise known as a “vicious circle”: The costs of traditional medical care […]

Taken from a forum post and republished here:
So, I’ve been mulling this thing for over a week now, wondering how to go about expressing my gratitude to the man I married almost 13 years ago. I decided to do it here because: A) It’s my forum and I can and B) Most of the people […]

(No, unfortunately it’s not for Kira. This came through in my email this morning, so I thought I’d pass it on.)
May 3, 2007
Good News Travels Fast!
Your [tag]activism[/tag] just saved supplements from being turned into “untested drugs”! [tag]Big Pharma[/tag] will be back, but today, we can do a victory dance!
Thank you 435,005 times. That’s the number […]

This article on the [tag]FDA[/tag]’s attempts to end access to [tag]vitamins[Tag], [tag]minerals[Tag], [tag]herbs[tag], and other supplements came to me in email today. I’m passing it on here in hopes the wider outreach will spur those of you who use alternative healing modalities into action to protect what’s left of your rights to do so.
Comments […]

What every person ought to know before they become hospitalized.

I’ve noticed that since I wrote the last installment I’ve felt like writing again, and about more than what happened to my son and my family this past summer. I’m getting ideas and concepts about projects I want to tackle that don’t involve my home. […]

“Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, […]