Healthy Curiousity

It all began way back in the 19th century. " Sickness Behavior"  was observed in humans and farm animals. As that Wiki article goe...

Recently some people told me about how an Italian cardiologist is making a big fuss out of the fact that when he removes a tumour he finds f...

Given the massive amount of research in biomedicine it is tempting to think that we are now in the process of completing the picture of biol...

Days of strange co-incidences. Today a friend in the USA sent me a fascinating little article from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Basi...

History of Madness Michel Foucault Routledge 2006 At the start of this text is a recommendation by R. D. Laing, a founder of the ant...

Watermelon is good for the heart? Yes, and it is also is being touted by some as a "natural viagra". These two issues are inter-re...

Air Power: From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War 11: A History of the People, Ideas and Machines that Transformed War in the Century of Flight Steph...

For a long time it was believed that inflammation played a critical role in the development of Alzheimer's. This can be true but needs t...

Have a look at the abstract further down. It highlights something that we tend to ignore. We think that something like Chernobyl should have...

A quick one. This repor t came up on Science Daily. ... The study found that a complex dietary supplement powerfully offsets this key symp...