For years there has been a recommendation that a glass of wine with dinner was beneficial. However, on May 12 a study out [...]

May is National Cancer Research month. That means it is a good time to review some common misconceptions about cancer. Some people consider [...]

Heart disease continues to be the biggest cause of death in the U.S. Since it is so common, there are often misconceptions about [...]

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. [...]