| 07/31/2007 - Cow, interrupted |
| As you know if you've been a reader of mine for any length of time at all, I'm a bit conflicted about things like genetic engineering. |
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| 07/31/2007 - New Skeeter Scare? |
| It's summertime, and that means it's time to revisit a core issue of mine: Mosquito-borne disease. As you may know, I'm a big fan of the banned DDT insecticide for controlling those pesky - and sometimes deadly - little buzzers. |
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| 07/30/2007 - Coffee, tea, and D (NA)… |
| It's "bean" a while since I mentioned one of my favorite beverages. You already know what it is - although if you're like most people, you probably drink it in ways that make it more like a milkshake than a hot cup of liquid health food… |
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| 07/27/2007 - Helpless hospitals - and weekend "worriers" Medical Legislation 911? |
| Nowadays, an increasing number of "hospitals" are doing exactly what you'd do in the event of a medical emergency: They're calling 911! |
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| 07/24/2007 - Sex, drugs, and rockin' roles… Defaming of the Shrews |
| You know why I'm always skewering the prescription drug business. Largely, I think it's a dangerous game that companies and governments are playing with deadly chemicals - with our lives hanging in the balance. |
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| 07/23/2007 - More of the odd from abroad… |
| Lots of times in the past, I've written Daily Dose items about India, a commercial juggernaut and largely vegetarian state often lauded as model-for-the-world on how to run a peaceful and tolerant democracy. |
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| 07/20/2007 - Weird, wild, and wacky: The international edition |
| For all the ridicule we Americans take in the worldwide media, it's refreshing to me (though some would call me sadistic for saying so) to learn that folks in other countries do ridiculous or absurd things, too. |
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| 07/17/2007 - Bacon and Eggs-asperation in the UK… |
| I spill a lot of ink in this column talking about frivolous science - things like researchers spending ungodly amounts of grant money to prove something everybody already knows, or worse yet, that nobody cares about. |
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| 07/13/2007 - Snore less, score more… |
| In the last Daily Dose, I warned you about a possible connection between nighttime snoring and oxygen deprivation, which some new research has linked to the onset of Alzheimer's disease… |
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| 07/10/2007 - "Breaking" news for sound older minds |
| It has been a while since I've written about the importance of good sleep - and today there are some timely news items that give me an opportunity to remind you of this core component of good health… |
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| 07/09/2007 - Lifesavers they say can kill… |
| In the last Daily Dose, I told you about a terrible tragedy that befell a hapless 17-year-old girl at the hands of a "safe" over-the-counter treatment. |
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| 07/06/2007 - Killers they say are safe… |
| It has been a while since I warned people about the dangers of over-the-counter drugs, but a recent news item hammered home the need for these warnings perhaps more than any other occurrence in recent years. |
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| 07/03/2007 - Brush with Prestone - a billion people can't be wrong! |
| The new "China Syndrome," part two: In the last Daily Dose, I sounded the alarm about imported toothpastes from China that contain highly toxic levels of a sweet-tasting chemical… |
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| 07/02/2007 - Another wrinkle in the great Chinese food scandal… |
| The new "China Syndrome," part one: You may remember the hit 1979 movie called "The China Syndrome," starring Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, and Michael Douglas. It was about cover-ups of safety violations at an American nuclear power plant. |
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