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Here is a footnote to the previous quote: Lycopene is the latest single nutrient to be fawned over by the nutritional establishment since a recent study appeared showing that men who consumed large amounts of tomato-based products suffered much lower rates of prostate cancer than those who didn’t. There is little doubt that the shelves…

An interesting piece by John Tierney in today’s New York Times made me reflect on the ongoing battle between physicians trying to help their patients deal with pain, drug seekers who are constantly trying to work physicians for narcotic pain medicines, and the members of various branches of law enforcement who are waging the war…

A “new” form of diabetes appears to be rearing its ugly head these days, a combination of type I and type II diabetes. The new disease seems to arise when doctors treat patients with type I diabetes, the rarer form of the disease in which patients can’t make enough insulin. (In contrast, Type II diabetic…

A copy of the most recent US Weekly fell into my hands today. The cover story is about the summer diet secrets of the stars. Unable to resist, I took a look. Here’s what I found: Jessica Alba: Eats oatmeal and fruit in the morning, salad and fish for lunch, and grilled chicken for dinner….

Schadenfreude anyone? Charles Isherwood’s review of Suzanne Somers new Broadway play.

A couple of interesting takes on l’affaire de Plame. One from John Tierney of the New York Times, the other from Mark Steyn.

The lipid hypothesis of heart disease is, as Dickens wrote of Scrooge’s partner, Jacob Marley, dead as a doornail, yet, like Marley’s ghost, it continues to haunt us. Why? Because the idea that cholesterol causes heart disease–the lipid hypothesis–has been so frequently repeated for so many years that doctors have forgotten that it is only…

I couldn’t agree more with the Motley Fool on this one.

I almost can’t believe I’m writing these words, but in this one instance I (gulp) agree with Jane Brody. Her column in Tuesday’s New York Times was spot on. She had a colonoscopy recently, and was encouraging her readers to do the same.  I heartily agree.  Colonoscopy is one of those tests that is invaluable…

At dinner with friends a few weeks back the movie Dirty Harry came up in conversation.  I remarked that I had never seen the movie, which the entire group seemed to consider a major defect in my intellectual development.  MD and I rented the movie and watched it last night. Although I can’t say that my life…