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…
Tag Archive for medicine
A Preventable Disease
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 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…
Updates on anti-vax, woo, and flying cars…
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 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,…
New Flu for You
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 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…
The Chiropractic state of Charlottesville
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 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”…
SciAm, You Disappoint Me
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 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.…
Stuff I read
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 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?)…
Another instance of science vs. religion?
by Nicole Gugliucci • • 1 Comment
Here is a story about Muslim medical students in the UK who would rather fail their exams than learn about alcohol, sexually transmitted diseases, or examine a patient of the opposite sex: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article2603966.ece Thankfully, it seems as though these students…