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Radiation is all around us in our techno world. Reducing our exposure to it is obviously a goal for all of us – especially for those little ones around us that we’re trying to protect. Turns out the biggest source isn’t that tv, cell phone, video game or microwave it’s …. our doctors ?

Ben Heywood  from PatientsLikeMe.com joined us this morning for a far reaching interview that covered ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease), his brother Stephen’s struggle with the disease which ultimately lead to the creation of the outcome based patient data website www.PatientsLikeMe.com and in a larger sense what REAL health care reform looks like. Never heard [...]

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WHO Calls Us “Irresponsible”?

by Steve on 25, January, 2010

The World Health Organization (aka WHO) is getting really annoyed at all of the people questioning them.  It seems this H1N1 “flu pandemic” fizzled out so much faster than all the hype around it that some folks are starting to ask questions … namely why all the hype? An answer being suggessted, to the WHO’s [...]

This seems like a story from the Department of Made Up Afflictions but since I’m dedicated to keeping you informed and this is a real story (Google reports over 73 news stories about it this morning), here goes …. Exotic wooden toilet seats and harsh chemical cleaners may be behind a new resurgence of toilet [...]

This is one of the reasons that I didn’t like the idea of vaccines being given in the schools.   It leaves the door wide open for mistakes due to folks not being familiar, or being overwhelmed, with the job that they’re trying to accomplish. It’s also a prime example of why as a parent [...]