Well, another year is almost gone. So long, 2011! From the earthquake and near meltdown in Fukushima to the antics of Charlie Sheen, we saw the kind of tragedies and scandals we see every year. And from Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a gunshot in her head to Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor whose protests sparked … Continue reading
It’s Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa time again! And if your house is like mine you’re busy decorating, baking, shopping, cooking, wrapping, mailing and then going to parties where there’s always somebody complaining that they don’t “do” the holidays because they’ve become too commercialized. “You don’t do Christmas?” I would say if I only had a spine. “Then unhand … Continue reading
Headline Washington, Thursday 8 December 2011- President Obama, who took office pledging to put science ahead of politics, averted a skirmish with conservatives in the nation’s culture wars on Thursday by endorsing his health secretary’s decision to block over-the-counter sales of an after-sex contraceptive pill to girls under age 17. www.truth-out.org No doubt you’ve heard of the … Continue reading
If you were a woman between the years of 15-25 and in the market for an oral contraceptive, you might very well ask your doctor for a product called “Yaz”, and you’d have plenty of company. The maker of Yaz, Bayer Health Care Pharmaceuticals, enjoys $1.8 billion in sales from the drug annually. No wonder. … Continue reading
Knowing what to ask your pharmacist isn’t hard: what’s this medicine? How do I take it? Will it make me bleed from my eyeballs? These questions are just common sense. But the questions you should NEVER ask the pharmacist – now that’s a different issue. They don’t, for example, like questions about the location of … Continue reading
