We’re all understandably worried about climate change. Information is churning away in our information age about what it means and what we can do: reduce our carbon footprint, purchase carbon offsets when we can’t, and support legislation that forces manufacturers to offer low greenhouse alternatives. Without these actions, scientists like those who sit on the Nobel Prize winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict significant effects on public health such as increased incidence infectious disease. [Read more…]

The New York Times published an article on fibromyalgia yesterday titled “Drug Approved. Is Disease Real?” What the article describes is creepy for what it reveals about health care in this country, in particular the warped logic that counts for medical reasoning. [Read more…]