5 Tips for Safe Handling and Use of Pesticides

What are pesticides? According to the Department of Agriculture, “Pesticides are natural or synthetic chemicals that kill, attract, rep...

Emerging Tick-borne Disease: Babesiosis

Babesiosis is a parasitic infection transmitted by deer ticks, the same tick that carries Lyme disease. Babesiosis is an emerging infection ...

What We Saw On Our Holiday

  We've just spent a little time on the Suffolk coast. Southwold to be more precise, or Adnams-on-Sea as I shall now call it. It doesn...

AHS Talk This Saturday

For those who are attending the Ancestral Health Symposium this year, my talk will be at 9:00 AM on Saturday.  The title is "Insulin an...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Positive Mosquito Pool

Maine CDC has confirmed the presence of Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus (EEE) in mosquitoes collected in the state.  One mosquito pool (a ...

Whooping cough update

Pertussis (whooping cough) is a cyclical disease that continues to affect a significant number of Maine residents. Maine CDC issued an updat...

Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... cola! Thirsty yet?  Visual cues such as these are used to drive food/beverage seeking and consum...

New Project Starting a new project tonight with  Paula Barnes new line, Hampton Ridge. 

Keep your Well, Well!

It’s easy to go about our day and not think about where the water we use comes from. In Thurston County, we drink  groundwater  and tha...