“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 pas

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

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

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, acc

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

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