Africanized Bees Continue To Spread In California

Africanized Bees Continue To Spread In California

A new study has found that the Africanized honey bee, an aggressive hybrid of the European honey bee, is continuing to expand its range northward since its introduction into Southern California in…
A Barrier Against Brain Stem Cell Aging

A Barrier Against Brain Stem Cell Aging

Neural stem cells generate new neurons throughout life in the mammalian brain. However, with advancing age the potential for regeneration in the brain dramatically declines. Scientists from the…
Mindfulness Is An Ideal Tool To Induce Compliance

Mindfulness Is An Ideal Tool To Induce Compliance

“If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.” Hsin Hsin Ming Almost every person who walks through my practice doorway is anxious in some…
Spontaneous Rare Mutations Cause Half Of Autism

Spontaneous Rare Mutations Cause Half Of Autism

Researchers are saying a new analysis of data on the genetics of autism spectrum disorder disputes a commonly held belief that autism results from the chance combinations of commonly occurring gene…
Review: Three Books On Anorexia

Review: Three Books On Anorexia

Portia De Rossi became famous playing Nelle on Ally McBeal in the 1990s and more recently as Lindsey Bluth on Arrested Development. She's a talented, funny actress, but more importantly: Portia De…
Publish Or Perish - And Cut Corners

Publish Or Perish - And Cut Corners

Last week there was another very public case of a journal article being retracted as a result of academic misconduct. This time it was in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), with…
Politics, Pain, And Percocet In Vermont

Politics, Pain, And Percocet In Vermont

It’s always heartwarming when an elected official jumps on a hot topic, opens his or her yap, at which point very little resembling the truth comes out, and scores a few cheap points with the public…
Setting A New Standard For Science Transparency

Setting A New Standard For Science Transparency

Things have been a little intense lately and the little voice in my head keeps begging, "How did I get here?"   In other times of quiet introspection the little voice in my head says, "What…