Archive for August, 2007
Heartburn Releif
If you’re Italian, you’re familiar with the term “agita” (also spelled “agida”), which is slang that generally means heartburn. It’s been somewhat more popularized by its use in HBO’s “The Sopranos,” but I’ve been hearing it since I was a little kid, often used by my relatives to described what I gave them when [...]
Microbots: Swiss Precision
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the concept of nanotechnology, its study and application to medicine and how the field might change the way scientists handle their approach to disease and other afflictions of the human body, perhaps allowing repair of the body without any kind of invasive surgery. I reminisced about Star [...]
Schizophrenia with a Technology Twist
On August 22nd, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Risperdal to treat children with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
The drug is not new; it has been used to treat adults with the same diseases since 1993, and in general, psychiatrists have been prescribing the drug in lower doses to children in need of [...]
Call the Guy with the Green Thumb
So, I’ve always considered myself something of a green thumb. Nearly every year since I was in college, I’ve spent some part of my summer growing and caring for plants in the yard of whatever property I happened to be living on at the time. Sometimes I have great success with my gardens, [...]
Killing the Cure
Just before I went away on vacation, I got sick. I had a runny nose, was feverish, and was generally feeling difficulty convincing myself that it was worth moving any faster than a sloth. I was therefore pretty thankful to be getting away, thinking, of course, that the rest would do my body [...]
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