Tag Archive for medicine

“Boosting” Your Immune System?

by Nicole Gugliucci • February 1, 2011 • 3 Comments

For once, I am not sick with some massive cold, allergic reaction, or, for goodness sake, pneumonia, like I have been on and off for the past several months. Some people would encourage me to boost my immune system using…

by Nicole Gugliucci • August 26, 2010 • 7 Comments

Whooping cough, also known as the “100 day cough” or, more formerly, pertussis, is on the rise. You can do something right now to protect yourself from what sounds to be a really uncomfortable disease, and the youngest ones around…

by Nicole Gugliucci • November 13, 2009 • 0 Comments

I have updates on some of what I’ve been writing about lately. So listen up! In my H1N1 post, I mentioned the “backwards walking cheerleader.” Via Skepchick, please read this entire post by Orac summing up the aftermath. In summary,…

by Nicole Gugliucci • October 31, 2009 • 2 Comments

Those of you who read the skeptical blogs may be sick (har har) of this topic already, but it can’t hurt to repeat it, especially with the fears and misreporting that abound. Flu season is upon us, and H1N1 (swine…

by Nicole Gugliucci • September 1, 2009 • 1 Comment

There has been much ado about Simon Singh and the libel lawsuit filed against him by the British Chiropractors Association in the last few months. If you look over to the right at the “Keep Libel Laws out of Science”…

by Nicole Gugliucci • May 6, 2009 • 5 Comments

I recently subscribed to Scientific American with the intention of keeping up to date with a broad range of scientific topics, and reading their in-depth magazine articles to compliment the barrage of short news stories we get flooded with everyday.…

by Nicole Gugliucci • September 24, 2008 • 0 Comments

For lack of any original thought over the last few days, I’ll continue to quip about articles that have come across my Google Reader, either on their own or from my favorite blogs (off to the right, see them there?)…