Cell phones get the OK

Now you can call all your friends and tell them the news: The link between cell phones and cancer is not strong. Not at all. The New York Ca...

Radiation is Good, says the Lancet

The New York Times just reported on an important British study showing that radiation prevented recurrences and saved lives of women who ha...

While I was Out...

The New York Times had a good mid-October report on the pinking of America. Basically, it was about the rise of the upbeat Komen for the Cur...

Return of the Bitch

It has been more than a month since I've blogged and I thought it was due to laziness but it may have been lack of urgency, since this i...

Announces or reveals?

Newsperson Andrea Mitchell has reported that she has breast cancer. You've probably already heard that. Odd that NBC http://www.nbcchica...

When the brand means the brand

Let's consider brands, not as in corporate branding or even personal branding, both kinds ubiquitous in this Age of Labeling. (A student...

the doom of it

B reminded me that when her physical pain was so great years ago, she had told me she thought of suicide, and then later, maybe months or ye...