A study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that Englishmen, who ate mainly fruit, vegetables and fish. were less likely to get depression 6 years later, compared to those who were heavy meat and bread eaters. This study had…

Since my last blog, I have flown from the Pacific Ocean across the Atlantic Ocean to the Grand Hotel des Illes Borromees in Stressa on Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. I’m here to take part in a conference on the role…

Today I was at the American Society of Nephrology Meetings in San Diego.  Instead of enjoying the magnificent weather, I spent the day indoors listening to an excellent series of talks on the aging kidney. A talk by Professor Helen…

The Journal of the American Directors Association has just accepted a report of H1N1 occuring in persons residing in a  Nursing Home. These patients living in South Dakota were not only influenza A positive, but had the  diagnosis confirmed by…

I spent last week in Lebanon at a conference organized by Saint George Hospital and the University of Balamand. In Lebanon approximately 60% of the population are muslim and the rest christian. While I was there I had the opportunity…

A study carried out in Yorkshire, England, found no effect of either magnetic or copper bracelets in decreasing pain or improving function in patients with wrist arthritis. The study involved 45 patients. It was published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine.…

 Erectile dysfunction (impotence) is often caused by blockage of the arteries. This is similar to the blocked arteries that occur when a male has a heart attack. Thus impotence could be considered to be “penile angina”. In the past, surgeons…

I had the privelege to talk at SCIFEST09 yesterday, on the theme of this year’s wonderful program. Numerous topics such as Robot Revolution, Supermarket Botany, Bionic You, Flirting the Scientific Way and How You Will Go to the Moon, were presented. You…

The average person with kidney failure makes the journey three times a week to an expensive dialysis center. Here she is connected to large machines which suck blood out of her body and purify it. In 1972, President Nixon signed…