mm190: U.S. Health Care – Excuses, not facts
MUDGE’S Musings Access to affordable health care. Five words. Easy to write. Rolls off the keyboard fluidly even. Simple phrase; political cesspool. Can universal access to affordable health care ever...
View Articlemm200: Stem cells: Unlike oil, we now have an alternative source
MUDGE’S Musings Stem cell research, emblematic of all that’s promising regarding the ability of scientists to remedy hitherto incurable diseases. Stem cell research, emblematic of the George III...
View Articlemm201: Stemming the tide of ignorance despite the neocons
MUDGE’S Musings Last post, we picked up on the report that stem cell researchers have an alternative source for the miracle tools. The writer of that NYTimes story follows up with a sidebar on the lead...
View Articlemm221: The dread disease we all hope to catch: Old age
MUDGE’S Musings It is always interesting to see how stories hit from different directions, and yet form a pattern startling in its similarity of topic. So it was when, while dining in the company...
View Articlemm223: Pigs, bees, fish — the dangerous ways we set our table
MUDGE’S Musings The lavish supplies of cheap food we take for granted in the U.S. are far more costly than we’ve understood. Two stories in NYTimes this weekend provide disturbing evidence on several...
View Articlemm227: Nanotechnology: The future is now — is it safe?
MUDGE’S Musings Nanotechnology. The gee-whiz technology of our future. Tiny robotic surgeons, injected into our bloodstream, repairing damaged organs and scouring clogged arteries. “Fantastic Voyage”...
View Articlemm230: Stem Cells; Insurance Scum; Overtreatment!
MUDGE’S Musings Yes, fan, it’s a Health/Medical edition of SASB! © We begin with a doubly frightening topic: Cancer combined with cancerous Stem Cells. This story hit NYTimes: Scientists Weigh Stem...
View Articlemm390: Mudge’s Healthy Obsession
MUDGE’s Musings While puttering around doing the formatting and graphics hunt for today’s effort, discovered that, without really being specifically aware of it, MUDGE has devoted at least 30 posts to...
View Articlemm400: A trend that I can really support
MUDGE’s Musings As faithful reader no doubt recalls, health issues are always taken quite seriously here in this nanocorner of the ‘Sphere©. Indeed, we have devoted quite a number of posts to health...
View Articlemm445: Another dietary mistake
© Simone Van Den Berg | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’s Musings Summertime. People are vacationing. The weather, here in the Northern Hemisphere, at least (reportedly quite chilly in Oz, sorry guys!) is...
View Articlemm447: Blast from the Past! No. 36
MUDGE’S Musings Well, today was that Thursday that actually began at 10:00pm last night, flowing seamlessly from Wednesday, and save for about two hours between the end of one meeting at 2am and the...
View Articlemm456: Blast from the Past! No. 38
MUDGE’S Musings So, back into the archives yet again. I console myself by guessing that most of you weren’t here nine months ago. As one of my favorite paper publications used to say: “If you haven’t...
View Articlemm480: Beat up
© Susy56 | Dreamstime.com MUDGE’s Musings Sometimes, you just have to admit defeat. Or, perhaps, you just need to take a breather. Tonight is a night that calls out for a break. No sooner does one of...
View Articlemm494: Blast from the Past! No. 50 — Health care excuses
© Kandasamy M | Dreamstime.com A very long day today (the alarm went off at 3:10am!), but hey, recycling is IN, right? We’re all about doing the right thing here at Left-Handed Complement, and in that...
View Articlemm495: Family and politics
© Susy56 | Dreamstime.com Once again, it’s nearly 9:00pm as I begin to figure out what to say tonight, pretty late for a guy whose alarm goes off at 5:10am, and who lived a full day’s worth already....
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