Category Archives: Health

Nine hundred million today, a couple of billion tommorrow!

I try, as best I can, to follow world events from an armchair perspective. Been that way for years. When the internet came along in the nineties, I had even more ways to gather and look at news events from … Continue reading

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McDonald’s Drive thru!

For millions of Americans, those Golden Arches beckon one and all, every day right about noon time. Menus on billboards proudly display pictures of Super Big This with oversized bags of That for all to see and desire.  (Could heroin … Continue reading

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Highly infectious Avian Flu developed by scientists!

Let me see if I have the perfectly correct. A lab in Rotterdam Netherlands has developed ‘a man-made flu virus that could change world history if it were ever set free!’ Seems that scientists have managed to alter the avian … Continue reading

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Test antrax vaccine on children, panel advises!

An advisory board to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services this afternoon urged the U.S. government to launch a controversial trial of the anthrax vaccine in children. The 12-1 vote backs a September recommendation from a working group … Continue reading

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Proper hand washing more effective than vaccines?

This last October the 15th, a group of organizations launched an initiative that promotes hand washing as something that ‘can reduce the spread of often fatal diseases and acute respiratory infections.’ Its organizers estimate that hand-washing with soap could save … Continue reading

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Just call me a Halloween weenie!

 God commands His people to “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Ephesians 5:11 I understand that for many millions of Americans, All Hallows Eve or Halloween, is a time of parties, candy and … Continue reading

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Contagion, the movie versus the real thing!

The movie Contagion has two plots in my view; first, a deadly virus comes on the scene that is transmitted indirectly by touching surfaces (known as fomite transmission) and second, the unfolding fear among people that races well ahead of … Continue reading

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NDM-1: A deadly genetic enterprise!

Like a cat softly entering a room on cushioned paws, a new killer may be stalking the land. Known as NDM-1 (New Delhi metallo-beta- lactamase 1) this gene fragment becomes deadly whenever it gets inserted into a bacterium’s genetic structure. … Continue reading

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Your Federal stimulus dollars at work!

After receiving money from the Obama administration, I wisely invested in a ‘fixer upper’ restaurant in what is quite frankly a poor section of town. The place cost over $200K, but I really didn’t care as it was not my … Continue reading

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Bloomberg and his smelly, groping camaraderie!

After two weeks of hosting the Wall Street Occupiers, Mayor Bloomberg has been forced to call in the city Sanitation Department to come in an clean out the ‘animals’ who have been living in Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan for … Continue reading

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