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It required a year to get this post written for a variety of reasons. I felt strongly about getting this story out there, as difficult as it was to tell. Cattle, Chickens, Hogs During the 2012 election season, a Georgia politician spoke in favor of a bill, that would outlaw pregnancy termination after 20 [...]
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I should have known it. I should have known that the reaction wouldn’t take very long. I should have known it based on prior history. The news story to which I am referring is, of course, the revelation yesterday in the New York Times editorial page by Angelina Jolie that she had decided to undergo…
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Stress hormones released by a pregnant mother can cause the placenta to shrink and can directly affect the developing brain of the foetus. Now, researchers have identified the mechanism through which stress may damage an unborn child in the womb. An enzyme in the placenta of the mother and the brain of the foetus acts […]
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Do we really only use 10 per cent of our brain at any one time? And do we use one half of our brain more than the other? The answers are no and no, but that doesn’t seem to stop these claims circulating. The Wellcome Trust’s new education and neuroscience project seeks to banish these […]
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Over the past several days I have spent a lot of time talking to patients, trying to explain why I've had to cancel their upcoming fecal transplant. The FDA has ruled that stool is an investigational new drug (IND), which now imposes a huge bureaucratic hurdle to getting a much needed therapy for patients with recurrent or intractable C. difficile infection. Today's Omaha World-Herald covers the new ruling and features our fellow blogger Dan Diekema. Even before the FDA did this, there […]
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On May 12 – International Awareness Day for ME/CFS/FM/MCS/etc – Phoenix Rising joined with 8 other US ME/CFS patient organizations and 26 independent patient advocates to call on the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to finally fix the problem of the many and diverse case definitions associated with our disease. In a letter to Secretary Sebelius, Dr Howard Koh, Dr Thomas Frieden and Dr Francis Collins, we explained our concerns about the current definition activities of
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