Flu season intensifies across the US

The following originally appeared on APHA’s Public Health Newswire blog. Flu cases are on the rise. According to the Centers for Disease Co...

On The Bus

You walk everywhere.  If it's too far to walk, you ride your bicycle.  Finally the time arrives when you have a car to drive but with th...

Saris and gas masks

View image | gettyimages.com A group of Indian women who have volunteered to man the auxiliary ambulance station in Augustus Street, St Pan...

Six of the Best 486

Slogger O'Toole offers a host of reasons why the rise of referendums in British politics should be resisted. "The former mining to...

Nick Clegg's powerful response on the Paris shootings

I agree with Nick.

How we have made the past a smoke-free zone

An interesting observation from Peter Bradshaw : There is a strange new smoking-related trend in movies and television. I noticed it while w...

Is Meat Unhealthy? Part VI

In this post, I'll examine the possible relationship between meat consumption and cancer risk. Is cancer risk even modifiable? Cancer is...

Vince Cable at his best or... What we shall be missing in the general election campaign

Back in June of last year I wrote that Nick Clegg would be making a mistake if he appointed Danny Alexander as our economic spokesman for t...

Wonderful Watery Inspiration

If you were to stop right where you are right now, is there not at least one thing visible invented by someone?  Our lives are enhanced by t...