Health

When I took my father to the hospital two days ago, he was feeling really bad. He even threw up after getting in the car. While he was in the emergency room getting tests, I drove to a nearby do-it-yourself car wash to clean out the car. I wore latex gloves to avoid catching what he had, but apparently I wasn't careful enough. Now I'm puking and crapping and running a fever … [Read more...] about Got the Fever

There was no blogging yesterday because my father got sick and I had to take him to the hospital. It's apparently nothing too serious, but because of his age and other conditions, they want to keep him for a couple of days. All I know about hospitals I know from House. The real thing is just as annoying as on TV, but much, much slower. Everything seems to happen at a … [Read more...] about At the Hospital Yesterday

I know a lot of people (you know who you are) who will be happy to hear this: More than a decade's use of mobile phones does not increase the risk of brain cancer, according to one of the largest studies yet conducted into the link. ... The latest study published in the US Journal of the National Cancer Institute, is a follow up to a study in 2001. It extends to an average of … [Read more...] about Your Cell Phone Is Not Killing You

In a previous post I linked to a short note about the early days of the AIDS epidemic. It's well-written, but I'd like to address a side issue that rubs me the wrong way. The author touches on it in her opening sentence: At a time when the mere threat of avian flu or SARS can set off a coast-to-coast panic—and prompt the federal government to draw up contingency plans … [Read more...] about HIV/AIDS and the Avian Flu

Alexandra Billings has a moving account of the early days of the AIDS pandemic here in America: At a time when the mere threat of avian flu or SARS can set off a coast-to-coast panic--and prompt the federal government to draw up contingency plans and stockpile medicines--it's hard to imagine that the national response to the emergence of AIDS ranged from indifference to … [Read more...] about 25 Years of HIV