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Eureka! Why I gain weight when I'm sick
Seriously, this is more great research from the great Republic of Texas, from scientists at UT Southwestern Immunology in Dallas. The actual report is available only by subscription in the journal, Science, but you can read a free review at Science Daily. It turns out that our intestines protect us from infection by invasive bacteria … Continue reading
>Eureka! Why I gain weight when I’m sick
>Seriously, this is more great research from the great Republic of Texas, from scientists at UT Southwestern Immunology in Dallas. The actual report is available only by subscription in the journal, Science, but you can read a free review at Science Daily. It turns out that our intestines protect us from infection by invasive bacteria … Continue reading
A note on today's cartoon
At the top of the page, the Day by Day cartoon is still playing outthe “pregnancy” of one of the characters. Today, we find out that Damond and Jan both feel as though they have no “say in the matter.” Well, as a mother and a grandmother and a woman who had a couple of … Continue reading
>A note on today’s cartoon
>At the top of the page, the Day by Day cartoon is still playing outthe “pregnancy” of one of the characters. Today, we find out that Damond and Jan both feel as though they have no “say in the matter.” Well, as a mother and a grandmother and a woman who had a couple of … Continue reading
Good (not prolife) review of Emergency Contraception online
Although the authors make a point to redefine pregnancy as beginning at implantation, this article contains an otherwise fair review of the “Mechanisms of Emergency Contraception Pills,” from the August issue of the journal, Contraception. Please note this paragraph: Early treatment with ECPs containing only the progestin levonorgestrel has been shown toimpair the ovulatory process … Continue reading
>Good (not prolife) review of Emergency Contraception online
>Although the authors make a point to redefine pregnancy as beginning at implantation, this article contains an otherwise fair review of the “Mechanisms of Emergency Contraception Pills,” from the August issue of the journal, Contraception. Please note this paragraph: Early treatment with ECPs containing only the progestin levonorgestrel has been shown toimpair the ovulatory process … Continue reading
Short course (long post) on medical ethics.
Are doctors killing patients or taking life when they withdraw or withhold care? Do families who don’t insist that “everything be done” kill their loved one? Do patients who refuse ventilators, dialysis, etc., commit suicide? For that matter, does a ventilator equal dialysis equal a feeding tube? Can the patient who refuses all attempts to … Continue reading
Medicine by jury
I received two comments to my post on the case of Mrs. Ruthie Webster, from the lawyer who runs the “Texas Advanced Directive Blog,” Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D. (I have already offered Ms. Ward any help I can give in these cases.) (Among other things) Ms. Ward said, You will NEVER get lawyers out of … Continue reading
>Medicine by jury
>I received two comments to my post on the case of Mrs. Ruthie Webster, from the lawyer who runs the “Texas Advanced Directive Blog,” Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D. (I have already offered Ms. Ward any help I can give in these cases.) (Among other things) Ms. Ward said, You will NEVER get lawyers out of … Continue reading
News Release on Embryonic Stem Cell "Breakthrough" Changed
From the Kaiser Network Daily Reports (free, no subscription), we learn that the Washington Post and others are being forced to backtrack on an unethical press release. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that scientists who have no respect for human life go along with press agents who don’t mind spinning the story! Daily Women’s Health PolicyBioethics … Continue reading
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