Science is not “an exact science.” Any good, honest scientist will admit that every new discovery is only an approximation towards more definite answers that may not even exist. The infallibility of science is a myth that unfortunately causes problems like rigid, inflexibl

At last! I have been faithfully reading the journal Annals of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology since I was in Medical School 1980-1984. I never gave up hope of finding therein a report on the fact that most of the immune system is in the gut, a concept now well covered in many other pee

“There is no place for dogma in Science. The scientist is free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any error. Where Science has been used in the past to erect a new dogmatism, that dogmatism has found itself incompatible with the pro

All the references quoted in this issue are leftovers from 2014, except for one, which deals with my home state of Utah where prescription drug abuse is a serious problem. Methamphetamines are widely prescribed “legitimately” to treat ADD and all-too-often to lose weight.

As a reader of this newsletter you are likely to be swimming against the current. A recent New England J. of Medicine article addressed our dysfunctional health care system and how it may be fixed by swimming with you-and this newsletter.[1]   “[Since as much] as one third

Autism rates continue to climb, a sure sign that it is mostly an environmental problem. My home state, Utah, leads the nation with 1/54 boys affected. This is a moral tragedy of major proportions, accentuated by the fact that we are doing very little, if anything, for the root of the

EDITOR’S NOTE  Most of you have lived long enough to see pilot sunglasses and wide ties come back. I am sure the Hula hoop is not far behind. More aware of the ebbs and flows of human thought we do well to take any belief or ideology with a grain of salt; it is sure to be replac

The Commonwealth Fund report on health care in industrialized nations came out June 17th 2014. It again ranks the USA dead last. All other nations spend an average of $3,406 per patient per year. The US spends $8,508; yet, we have much less to show for. Why is this? If you recall the