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Here is an old ethical problem, redressed in its new and future framing.

As if having cancer were not enough to worry about, people undergoing chemotherapy need to keep bacterial infections in the forefront of their concerns at all times.

When I was in 5th grade, my elementary school teacher asked all of us to conduct an experiment at home.

Unauthorized touching has been in the news quite a lot in the last month. I found a study on a form of unauthorized touching that many more of us than those cited in the press, participate in – touching objects in museums.

"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man." Reverend Malthus

InShapetoday's headline is that the “FDA announced that vaccines are causing autism” I will spare you the web address link because this level of disingenuous misinformation may be contagious. Here is the subheadline:

We need more information about depression, both to have a better understanding of the causes and exploration of new therapeutics. 

While the new AHA guidelines garnered the bulk of the headlines, there was an abstract entitled Cardiovascular Risk Stratification Using Off-the-Shelf Wearables and a Multi-Task Deep

It's the middle of November and it's time to move "get a flu shot" straight up to the top of the to-do list if you haven't already. There is no more procrastinating. 

In an effort to combat patient non-compliance with medications, the FDA just approved the first pill with an ingestible tracking sensor.