Quick post: What’s the fuss about resveratrol when you can have a 5HT2c appetite suppressant do the same thing?

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

The new fountain of youth may be an empty cupboard.
Starve a little and you’ll live longer, is the new conventional wisdom –when you restrict calories, lots of good things happen to prevent aging.
Looking back at the people posting on the lorcaserin post who are on the trial and who don’t feel like eating — isn’t [...]

Another reason why daylight savings time is unhealthy

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

We are all Frankensteinian, in that we all have the capacity to regrow dead or damaged tissue in our bodies. But even Frankenstein, once regrown from dead tissue, could control his circadian rhythms.

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Your family is more likely to pull the plug if they’re happy with the ICU

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Say you’re on life support, and, you are just racking up the ICU bills. Will your family be a little too enthusiastic in pulling the plug?

The hospital admin knows these bills won’t get paid, since the debt dies with the debtor, in most cases. So what do they do? The butter up your [...]

Sick in the head? Maybe fuzzy thinking when you have a cold is caused by high-level immunity.

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Grandville, J.J., “Métamorphosis du Jour” . . Hypocrite. . .”
A few years ago, with flamingly infected tonsils, I was on a contentious speaker-phone conference call with an adversary when my voice gave out and I couldn’t talk. My adversary was kind enough to at least put his end on mute while celebrating my impending demise. [...]

Airborne® lawsuit settlement - once you find out something doesn’t work.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Being in the biopharma business, I’m always amazed at the direct-to-consumer adverts on TV. It looks like unmitigated chutzpa to me, to advertise that you can get rid of stubborn belly fat or that you apply directly to forehead. Now, I feel a little vindicated. Except I wonder if taking away hope that a [...]

Pathological crying can be caused by brain dysfunction

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Ricky, don’t cry! You haven’t been Auf’d! [Swivelchair note: Ricky was auf'd]  I hope you’re OK - you know, the very basic areas of the brain are involved in crying. If you can’t stop, I hope it’s not a tumor (see abstract below).

J Clin Neurosci. 2008 Jan 10 [Epub ahead of print]
Brainstem compression [...]