Recent Discoveries That Could Revolutionize Medicine In recent years, a handful of recent discoveries have provided glimmers of hope for both effective and affordable health care. Here, a list of seven recent discoveries that could revolutionize medicine.
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Unknown Helpers Are Plotting in Our Behalf
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged health, medicine, science on December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Conspiracy to Create Life-Saving Drugs
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged cures, health on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New drug could cure nearly any virus The drug works by targeting a type of RNA produced only in cells that have been infected by viruses. “In theory, it should work against all viruses,” says Todd Rider, a senior staff scientist in Lincoln Laboratory’s Chemical, Biological, and Nanoscale Technologies Group who invented the new technology. [...]
The Conspiracy of Do-Gooders Is Growing
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged aid, health on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Greatest Person of the Day: Redefining student aid in Africa …23-year-old [Michelle Milee Chang] is the co-founder and CEO of Ambassadors for Sustained Health (ASH), a public health organization that is bent on treating public health and aid to developing nations in a more mature and sustainable way. ASH has a handful of flourishing projects [...]
Practical Pronoia Is the Best Pronoia
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged health, toilets on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Reinventing the toilet Water hygiene and safe waste disposal are two of the biggest causes of infant mortality in the developing countries. Bill Gates and his foundation hope to create inexpensive toilets to vastly improve the living conditions of millions of people. It could save lives around the world.
Let’s Recognize Every Type of Genius
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged harlem, health, heroes on May 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Greatest Person Of The Day: Dr. Alwyn Cohall, Harlem Health Advocate I grew up in Harlem, a community steeped in a rich heritage of cultural and political achievement. However, it is also a community beset disproportionately by health problems. Even as a child, I knew I had to do something to help better conditions for [...]
More Secrets of Life Spill Forth
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged happiness, health on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Duh! Happiness Improves Health and Lengthens Life “We reviewed eight different types of studies,” Diener said. “And the general conclusion from each type of study is that your subjective well-being — that is, feeling positive about your life, not stressed out, not depressed — contributes to both longevity and better health among healthy populations.”
Do You Know All the Ways That Laughter Can Improve You?
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged health, laughter on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There may be a lot more for you to learn about the healthful art of laughing and smiling. It is known that laughing produces rapid rhythmical contractions of the diaphragm. These rhythmical contractions have a healthful effect on the abdominal organs, stimulating their functions and activating the digestive secretions, especially those of the liver. They [...]
The Pronoiac Facts Trump the Fear-Based Delusions
Posted in Books, tagged earth, globalization, health on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Improving State of the World: Why We’re Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet by Indur M. Goklany
There’s More Good Health News Than Bad
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged antibiotics, health, infection on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Norway conquers infections by cutting use of antibiotics
Even the Bad Guys May Do Some Good Works
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged frito-lay, health, humor on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Frito-Lay angrily introduces line of healthy snacks
Add Some Dirt to Your Purity, Some Grit to Your Optimism
Posted in Books, tagged happiness, health, holistic medicine, larry dossey on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness by Larry Dossey It may seem odd that a book promising to reveal the keys to happiness as well as health lists unhappiness as one of those keys, but Dossey contends that unhappiness is as necessary for the preservation of good health [...]
Your Body Is Smarter Than You Imagine
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged andrew weil, healing, health on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rob says: Writing in Whole Earth, Dr. Andrew Weil says, “Any level of biological organization that we examine, from DNA up to the most complex body systems, shows the capacity for self-diagnosis, for removal of damaged structure, and for regeneration of new structure.” I urge you to keep that idea close to the front of your mind, dear readers. [...]
Your Body Is Smarter Than You Imagine, Part Two
Posted in Books, tagged disease, health, james forleo on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Health Is Simple, Disease Is Complicated: A Systems Approach to Vibrant Health by James Forleo Dr. James Forleo proposes a return to the body as the site of self-healing. The problem, he says, is that we don’t understand the language of signs and symptoms it uses to communicate its healing messages. Health Is Simple helps readers decipher that [...]
Miraculous Transformations
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged genes, health on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You can actually change your genes by doing healthy things
Kindness is the Key to Health and Happiness
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged happiness, health, kindess, smalley on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kindness is the Key to Health and Happiness by Susan Smalley
Reversals: Top Ten Bad Things That Are Good For You
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged beer, chocolate, coffee, health, indulgence, sex, wine on December 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Top Ten Bad Things That Are Good for You
