Sweet January

Save Time Without Sacrificing the Quality of Your Permanents

(Click on the images to read the text.) American Hairdresser, November 1942

Krauss's New Article on Saturated Fat Intervention Trials

Dr. Ronald Krauss's group just published another article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, this time on the intervention t...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Health Care

Below is a wonderful tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., written 10 years ago by the then head of US DHHS' AHRQ. About a year after...

Haiti Earthquake

This US CDC website is very useful for earthquake preparedness. Believe it or not, we have them in Maine on occasion, and certainly many Ma...

Where's That Then? No 8

A fairly easy one this week, I should think. Another classic English view, but I'll give a slight hint. That building on the right with ...

The Body Fat Setpoint, Part II: Mechanisms of Fat Gain

The Timeline of Fat Gain Modern humans are unusual mammals in that fat mass varies greatly between individuals. Some animals carry a large ...

The "Crazy, Mixed-up Skin"

"Nearly every teen-ager faces the embarrassment of acne at some stage of growth. New discoveries are speeding skin health." (Click...

Ancient plagues share similarities with H1N1, other modern diseases

The emergence of the new H1N1 influenza virus last year grabbed the attention of health authorities and many of the world’s people. This nev...