In what is being called a ’serious organized crime racket’, police in the state of Gujarat have uncovered a widespread scandal involving doctors and clinics in the state, a scandal that has so far claimed 70 lives by causing hepatitis B. In all those cases, hepatitis B virus was found to...

Portland, Oregon has been recently declared the most depressed city in the country. BusinessWeek determined this based on "antidepressant sales, suicide rates, unemployment, divorce, and crappy weather." Philly didn't make the top 20 list. That's because we're too busy enjoying......

As reported by The New York Times, people with bipolar disorder have a higher risk of suffering from fatal illness according to a study (that reviewed 17 other studies involving more than 331,000 people) reported in the February issue of......

A topic many in the LGBT community don’t think about often is aging.  We can accept it, but American society, unfortunately, still isn’t comfortable with “the gays.â€�  Thus, when gay seniors need to find a retirement home, they are often shoved back into the closet.  Signifi...

There’s been a ton of buzz about the February 25th NY Times article What’s Eating Our Kids? Fears About ‘Bad’ Foods, by Abby Ellin. The article asserts that parents who are “vigilant about their children’s consumption of sugar, processed foods, and trans fats� and “try to stick to an...

That’s right, I even took a picture of what my doctor wrote down for me.  I have Acquired Idiopathic Dysautonomia with Polyneuropathy, and I couldn’t be happier. How cool is it that my doctor even misspelled it? When I heard him, I was like, “What the fuck is that?”  Acquir...

Misty Trees Art Print I love this - tea and the environment in one post! On one of the walls in our kitchen, I have an antique “hanging shelf” which actually includes 4 shelves. It’s filled with different boxes and canisters of tea: Green tea - delicious and filled with antioxidant...

Just when you think journalism from respected news organizations couldn’t sink any lower, the BBC (amongst many other news agencies) is reporting today that “Online networking ‘harms health:’” People’s health could be harmed by social networking sites because they...

I could've been a statistic right here in this area. Philadelphia now boasts the sharpest increase in suicides in the country. Despite all the homicides in Philadelphia making the news, the 196 people who killed themselves in 2008 were quietly......

You would not BELIEVE all the sugary crap my son got for Valentine’s Day. The first wave came days before Friday, when my in-laws brought my son a dozen mini cupcakes. He had four in the eight hours they were with him and begged for more after they left. Then there was the pre-K Valentine’s par...