A few weeks ago I spent a better part of an hour dumping out about $500 worth of alcohol down my drain.  Most people would think I’m nuts, but I had to do it. It was time to face the cold hard facts - I’m getting old, my health is in the toilet.  Let me tell you a story about The Girl ...

Dr. Laurance Johnston's review of How to Overcome Your Health Problems by Brent Atwater Dr Laurance Johnston : Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Northwestern University. Laurance Johnston became a FDA regulatory scientist, a NIH division director, and director of the Spinal Cord Resea...

Yesterday I drove to St. Louis for an appointment with my rheumatologist. It was a routine appointment, which I had to reschedule four times for various reasons. It was a good visit, all in all, and the doctor provided some good information for me. I have noticed over the past couple of months that ...

Breaking a fall, such as a tumble on the sidewalk, with your hands and wrists is everyone’s natural reflex. But, if you fall hard enough, you’ll often fracture your radius bone, or even one of the smaller wrist bones and wrist ligaments. Left untreated, these injuries could lead to disabling wri...

Breaking a fall, such as a tumble on the sidewalk, with your hands and wrists is everyone's natural reflex. But, if you fall hard enough, you'll often fracture your radius bone, or even one of the smaller wrist bones and wrist ligaments. Left untreated, these injuries could lead to disabling wrist a...

Seriously?  Why does life suck?  Every time I turn around something bad happens. I mean, good lord, I was just talking about the woman who has the world’s longest fingernails with my stepson today on the way home from school - and I come home to find out that she has been in a car accident, ...

We seem to be hibernating but with a touch of cabin fever. We did get to go to an away screening at the Emirates - INSIDE the Emirates! - much fun, a few photos. Money troubles have been eased, at least for the next three months. The boi is champing at the bit to get back to work, but has been advis...

I can NOT believe what I have just read on the internet.  CAN NOT BELIEVE that someone from the Associated Press has decided to call my disease a “murky disease” … you see, I have Fibromyalgia , and it sucks.  As if this disease now needs to take another blow to the chest. Now mo...

Biotech, acquisitions, Autoimmune Luke Timmerman wrote: Pfizer rocked the business world yesterday with its $68 billion bid to acquire Madison, NJ-based Wyeth (NYSE: WYE), and the ripple effect was felt here in the Northwest. Nobody in town has a bigger stake in this deal than Seattle-based Trubion ...

"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but paddling like the dickens underneath." -Michael Caine A couple weeks ago I woke up in the middle of the night with a name in my head. It wasn't someone I knew personally, but it was familiar all the same. Just who was this Evelyn Boosby person, and why was I...