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Dental X-Rays May Be Overused But They Are Safe

6 Dec 2024

X-rays of our teeth are routinely prescribed by dentists, but you know what else follows a certain periodicity? Media coverage of the alleged danger and overuse of these dental radiographs.

Murder Most Foul!

5 Dec 2024

One of my favorite detective stories is Agatha Christie's "The Crooked House." The plot revolves around an elderly tycoon who requires daily insulin shots. He also suffers from glaucoma for which...

Bhattacharya To Decide the Fate of Medical Research

29 Nov 2024

An economist turned pandemic celebrity, who loudly and repeatedly advocated for mass infections with the coronavirus, has been nominated by Donald Trump as the new director of the National...

The Fluoride Controversy

27 Nov 2024

The nomination of Robert Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services is a travesty. His ideas about vaccination, raw milk, hyperbaric oxygen, HIV, Wi-Fi and COVID fly in the face of...

Wolfsbane Has a Long, Dark History

22 Nov 2024

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette....

Acne and Diet: An Ambiguous Association

22 Nov 2024

You have probably heard that drinking milk and eating chocolate causes acne or, at the very least, that they make it worse. Diet is often blamed for a teenager鈥檚 pimply skin, but is there good...

A Bite into the Science of Venoms

22 Nov 2024

You are likely aware of the large number of drugs that have been developed from chemicals found in plants, including aspirin from willow bark, atropine from deadly nightshade, and both morphine and...

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