A recent study looked at hypertension in a large group of patients. It looked at 12,080 adults. It followed them for 22 years [...]

Last week I wrote about the fact that prejudice is a learned behavior. There are many kinds of learned prejudice. I have a [...]

The heroine of South Pacific is Nellie Forbush. She is stationed on a South Pacific island. She falls in love with a well-to-do [...]

Parents are often creatures of habit. Sometimes those habits are good. Sometimes they are not. One way to improve parenting is to look [...]

A few months ago, I wrote an article on delayed immunity. The term for that is anamnestic response. Antibodies represent immediate immunity. At [...]

Human beings all age at the same rate. Everyone gets one second older in one second. Everyone gets one year older in one [...]

Recently a murderer tried to justify his behavior as sex addiction. What he did not realize is that there is no such thing. [...]

I never set up a Facebook page. When Facebook arrived I was still in active practice. My concern was what would I do [...]

The term for this week is antigenic drift. This is the term used for a virus that evolves over time. The evolution involves [...]

When I was a resident in Boston a woman had her thirteenth child. The child had Down’s Syndrome. I was the one who [...]