HPV Vaccine Side Effects: An Introduction As with any medicine, there are possible side effects with HPV vaccines (Gardasil® and Cervarix®). However, not everyone who receives the HPV…

The intersection of medical technology, medical practice and ethical principles has long been an important field of study but the rapid advance of medical technology has made it perhaps the most…

Klaudia Brix of Jacobs University has resigned from the board of the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology,  the official publication of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology, because…

Last week I spent a few interesting days in the pleasant winter setting of Engelberg, a mountain location in the Swiss alps. There I attended the CHIPP 2012 winter school, an event organized by…

Conventional wisdom holds you're born with perfect pitch or you're not. The conventional wisdom is wrong. Here's how to train perfect pitch. For my book Brain Trust, I interviewed Diana Deutsch…

I hope The Atlantic is enjoying its page views - pseudoscience sells and they are pushing it out there.  After an ill-fated no-science-allowed cultural diatribe (by a food critic, no less)…

First I will play the old gauge symmetry game repeated everywhere for EM. I will then teach that old dog a new trick that ends up with the same bone. I will then struggle a little over the lingo to…

Most of the time, fishermen fish for one particular creature--be it tuna, sardines, or shrimp. Unfortunately, species tend to exist in a commingled muddle called ecology, and it's often…

The news of the world are filled again with anti-Chinese propaganda. I am appalled at how simplistic anti-Chinese bickering is allowed to be, because it hides the real problems and dangers of China,…

This Sunday I had nice discussion with Dr Sameer Agarwal our close relative and a senior Pathologist from Jaipur and he showed me some papers on the role of leaf extract from Papaya curing/ improving…