As Doug Berman notes, the Federal Sentencing Reporter issue dedicated to sex offender issues is out. You can find the details here. I was honored to be one of the contributors and as I noted I have also made my......

7.5 million people last year needed drug treatment , but less than 20% received it.  The main reason, according to researchers, is that these addicted persons did not see the need!   Any of us who have been around an alcoholic or drug addict can relate.  We have seen the drunk who practically fal...

A week ago today Jason Holleman and Emily Evans made a admirable effort to amend inequities in Metro Water billing out of the Mayor's rate increases to no avail.  24 council members voted with Mayor Dean to insist that big businesses, which generate more stormwater run-off, actually pay less for th...

Just as you believe that maybe, perhaps, the tide is turning and the government that is charged with the responsibility and care of those most in need — the severely mentally ill who are hospitalized — actually “gets” it, you read a story like this one. Raquel Padilla was dis...

New York, NY--March 9, 2009--InterCure Ltd., a medical device company publicly traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: INCR), today announced a new study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Human Hypertension. The advance online publication of the study is now available on the journal's w...

Yvonne, one of my readers, sent me encouraging messages about my sore mouth after just one dose of gemcitabine.  She wrote: "I feel your pain!!! ...In fact, I am rinsing along with you this week!!" Now, it is really true that misery loves company, and I felt better knowing that I was...

I had a question from a reader about my chemo schedule, and I agree, it's hard to understand. So I thought I'd try to outline it here, briefly. (Well, maybe not so briefly...) I'm not on any kind of standard regimen--Tykerb is normally given with xeloda, for example, but I can't tole...

blog: It was inevitable that the trainwreck that is "octomom" Nadya Suleman would spur calls to regulate reproductive technology — and offer plenty of chances for politicians to grandstand on a headine-grabbing issue. Georgia state Sen. Ralph Hudgens (R-Of Course) was one of the first to get in on...

I stuck out my tongue in front of the mirror yesterday morning, and what did I see? Red sore patches, with whitish borders. My tongue looks like someone beat it up, and that's how it feels, too.  So, being no dummy, I called my oncologist's office and talked to one of his nurses. She a...

if   and the   would just figure out what the hell they want to do when they grow up and do it. This scrapping myself up off Dr. Sanity's carpet in search of the real me is getting, well I certainly can't say boring, but exhausting.  The brilliant (Dr. Sanity...