The Quill Literary Foundation has created the first literary awards whose results will be decided by the book buying public.
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Book Review: Conquering Diabetes – A Patient-Oriented Approach
It’s almost impossible to walk into a bookstore or look at a bestseller list these days without seeing some new “miracle cure” health book. Conquering Diabetes by Dr. Ann Peters isn’t in that category. Rather than promise miracle solutions, it offers a practical, patient-oriented approach toward dealing with diabetes. There’s …
Read More »Bullying (and bullied) girls
Two books about the horrible things done to girls, most often by other girls. One is the application of the label “school slut”. Now I think about it, every school, college and similar collection of adolescents or young adults with which I have been involved had a school slut, or, …
Read More »Book Review: Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough To Live Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman
Eternal life may be changing from a death-defying fantasy to something more mundane, as this new book reveals...
Read More »Online Dieting Popular and Successful
Internet dieting has become extremely popular in recent years, according to this article from AP. We have seen some of the results here: this post on the South Beach Diet has been gathering comments steadily for nine months, and CW Fisher has just started a series on what he calls …
Read More »Grasshopper Snatches Pebble
David Carradine, who isn’t Chinese and only looks vaguely Asian because he squints a lot, is back in the spotlight with his title role in the Kill Bill films and with today’s DVD release of the first season of Kung Fu. I loved Kung Fu when it ran on TV …
Read More »Pain Killer by Barry Meier
Politics play a critical role in how medical patients are treated. Cultural norms and the politics that implement those norms determine even what is considered a treatable medical condition in the first place. Nowhere has the politics of medicine been more evident over the last century than in the treatment …
Read More »KIDS WHO KILL – Interview with Dr. Helen Smith
An autopsy of a badly broken social system by a forensic psychologist, the creator of the documentary Six.
Read More »Diet Doctor Knocks Noggin, Expires
Dr. Robert C. Atkins, 72, the low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet guru, died several days after suffering a severe head injury during a fall: Atkins died Thursday at the New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center after falling on an icy sidewalk April 8, said his spokesman, Richard Rothstein. He underwent surgery to remove …
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