Peeling the Onion image

Peeling the Onion

In the language of statistics, health is a continuous variable. A person's health can be expressed as an infinity...
Riding the Brakes image

Riding the Brakes

We're all familiar with the highway driving experience of being behind a person who is continually braking for no...
Spring Fever image

Spring Fever

Spring is near. In New York City, yellow, white, and purple crocuses have raised their cup-shaped flowers above the...
Straight Talk About Health Care image

Straight Talk About Health Care

In 2009 there's been lots of conversation about health care, both at the federal and state levels.1-3 Not all the...
Turn Your Medicine Chest into a First-Aid Cabinet image

Turn Your Medicine Chest into a First-Aid Cabinet

Many people have medicine chests in their bathroom, small shelving units filled with bottles of pills, capsules,...
What Do Lab Tests Really Mean? image

What Do Lab Tests Really Mean?

You're at the doctor's office because you think something might be wrong. Rationally, you know tests are probably...
Your Personal Corporation image

Your Personal Corporation

You are the CEO of your own personal enterprise. In addition to whatever business you might be running or might be...
Coming Up for Air image

Coming Up for Air

Both Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, and Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species and...
Five To Stay Alive image

Five To Stay Alive

It's the rare child who actually wants to eat fruits and vegetables. Kids are bombarded by television and radio ads...
Staying Well In Winter image

Staying Well In Winter

Simon and Garfunkel [and later, The Bangles] had it right. Winter light is hazy - it's more diffuse. The sun is...