Article Archive
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February, 2015
Insuring Health Insecurity (2/16/15)
The Power of Ideology (2/9/15)
January, 2015
Colds – New Ways to Treat (1/26/15)
Depression – Cheap Ways to Treat (1/19/15)
Why Colds Like the Cold (1/12/15)
December, 2014
How Can I Prevent Cancer? (12/29/14)
Which to Use – Artificial or Natural Intelligence? (12/22/14)
The Hat – Cancer Connection (12/8/14)
New Ways to Cut Obesity (12/1/14)
November, 2014
When Normal is Dangerous (11/24/14)
De-Clocked – the New Stealth Shift Work (11/10/14)
New Ways to Make Mistakes (11/3/14)
October, 2014
Learning From the Next Ebola (10/20/14)
The Most Important Learning (10/13/14)
A Grand Farce – Electronic Health Records and You (10/6/14)
September, 2014
Regeneration Health – For You and the Environment (9/29/14)
Depression: Time for a Rethink (9/8/14)
The Amorality of Most Life (9/2/14)
August, 2014
What Will Happen to Sleep Medicine? (8/4/14)
July, 2014
Using Big Data Effectively (7/28/14)
Your Cancer Detection Bra Is Ready (7/21/14)
Preferring Electric Shocks to Solitude (7/14/14)
Can We Regulate Food Like Tobacco? (7/7/14)
June, 2014
Why You Don’t Light the Night (6/16/14)
The Real Rules of the Road (6/9/14)
May, 2014
Fighting Families Fall Ill (5/19/14)
Marijuana – the Panacea of Our Time? (5/12/14)
Why You Have a 30 Foot Gut (5/5/14)
April, 2014
Cheap, Beautiful Skin (4/28/14)
Driving Through Sleep (4/21/14)
New Era for Alzheimer’s? (4/14/14)
Prevention Versus Cure (4/7/14)
March, 2014
Your Lying, Cheating Brain (3/3/14)
February, 2014
Do You Know How to Walk? (2/24/14)
Why Diets Don’t Work (2/18/14)
Is Sleep Apnea Boring? (2/3/14)
January, 2014
What Is the Product? (1/28/14)
Civilizational Obesity (1/20/14)
The Pleasures of Pesticides – Marijuana and Tobacco (1/13/14)
Oh Why Do We Need a Y? (1/6/14)
December, 2013
Learning from the 400,000 Year Old Man (12/18/13)
Statins and the New Numbers Racket (12/9/13)
Does Depression Age You? (12/2/13)
November, 2013
Treating Depression Effectively – Getting People to Sleep (11/25/13)
How Drugs Change You Through Time (11/19/13)
Make It (Money) While You Fake It (11/11/13)
Life Is So Fast You Need to Rest (11/4/13)
October, 2013
No Treatment, No Problem (10/14/13)
September, 2013
Psychotherapy While You Sleep (9/30/13)
E -Cigarettes – The Way to Stop Smoking? (9/12/13)
Wild Type Humans Like Moving (9/6/13)
August, 2013
To Sleep – Perchance to Drive (82/6/13)
July, 2013
Little Bit by Little Bit (7/31/13)
Evidence Based Medicine? (7/22/13)
Going FAR to Prevent Diabetes (7/8/13)
Natural Versus Normal Sleep (7/1/13)
June, 2013
Sitting Sleeping Smoking (6/18/13)
A Modest Proposal to Save Countless Lives (6/11/13)
May, 2013
15 “Rules” For a Less Stressed Life (5/31/13)
Let’s Take Out the Bugs (5/28/13)
The Meat-Bug Connection (5/13/13)
Is ADD a Sleep Disorder? (5/6/13)
April, 2013
Can Baldness Make For a Bad Heart? (4/30/13)
Recognizing Regeneration (4/22/13)
Electronic Cigarettes (4/15/13)
Unknown Unknowns – Some Future Health Crises (4/2/13)
March, 2013
Less Sleep, More Weight? (3/29/13)
Give Us a Child Till She’s Seven (3/5/13)
February, 2013
Alzheimer’s – An Information Processing Illness (2/27/13)
What Health Innovation? (2/20/13)
Why We Need New Definitions of Health (2/13/13)
Alert – Bacteria Are Reprogramming Your DNA (2/6/13)
January, 2013
The New Hypochondriacs (Our Brave New Sensor World – 1/30/13)
Why Weight Is Not Public Healthy Enemy #1 (1/28/13)
Driving While Asleep (1/23/13)
The Changing Future of an Illusion (1/21/13)
Novel Uses of Alcohol (1/16/13)
How to Get Off Sleeping Pills (1/15/13)
Lifestyle in a Can? The Power of Energy (1/8/13)
Dining Out for 100 Trillion (1/2/13)
December, 2012
Sugar Coating Aspirin (12/18/12)
The Generic Drug Mess (12/17/12)
Losing Virility? The Strange Science of Sperm Counts (12/12/12)
Making the World Stupid (12/05/12)
Why People Won’t Sweat (12/03/12)
November, 2012
Reconstructing Memory (11/26/12)
Are Energy Drinks Safe? (11/20/12)
Post Election Depression? (11/19/12)
Who Will Pay For Health Care? (11/13/12)
Hello, Carbon Dioxide (11/12/12)
New Approaches to Combatting Cancer (11/7/12)
To Screen Or Not To Screen For Cancer (11/05/12)
October, 2012
How Much Exercise is Enough? (10/31/12)
Telling a Fake – Art Versus Science (10/29/12)
Fake Food, Fake Drugs, Fake… (10/22/12)
How You View Your Body Changes Your Body (10/17/12)
Why Did I Get Sick? Creating a Clinical Narrative (10/15/12)
The New Age of Anxiety (10/9/12)
What Will Create the Next Epidemic? (10/08/12)
Who’s Using All Those Sleeping Pills? (10/3/12)
Organic or Regular – What Should I Eat? (10/2/12)
September, 2012
Can Job Strain Kill You? (9/28/12)
Are You a Figment of Someone’s Imagination? (9/20/12)
Simple Ways to Live Longer – the Kungsholmen Study (9/18/12)
The Human Genome and You (9/13/12)
What’s So Bad About Inflammation? (9/12/12)
Making Up to the Monster (9/6/12)
August, 2012
Dr. Medicine Explains Health Care For You (8/30/12)
One Dollar = One Vote – The New Way to Rebuild American Greatness (8/27/12)
Gimme the Pill! Seductions of Supplements (8/22/12)
Why We Don’t Resist Fad Diets (8/21/12)
Whatever Happened to Guilt? (8/15/12)
Can Even Minor Stress Kill You – Plus What to Do About It (8/13/12)
Smoking Is My Retirement Plan (8/8/12)
The Unnecessarily Painful Treatment of Chronic Pain (8/6/12)
July, 2012
Regeneration Medicine – Preventing Colds (7/31/12)
Your Real Wealth is Your Health (7/30/12)
Better Living with Booze? (7/27/12)
Hear Me Now – It’s Time to Protect Your Ears (7/23/12)
Let’s Dream – How Democrats and Republicans Could Agree on Health (7/20/12)
Fit the Person to the Body – Personal Health (7/17/12)
Weight – Why Simple Answers Won’t Work (and what might) (7/12/12)
Are We Aging – Or Regenerating? (7/10/12)
Watch Out – the Net is Changing Your Body (7/5/12)
Will the Affordable Care Act Make America Healthy? (7/2/12)
June, 2012
Training – to Transform Your Body (6/26/12)
Doctor Versus Patient – the Case of Chronic Pain (6/25/12)
Is There a Personality for Longevity? (6/19/12
Health Insurance – My Story (6/16/12)
Fear and loathing in the waiting room (6/7/12)
Seeking warmth and safety (6/4/12)
How to regenerate America’s health (6/1/12)
May, 2012
Treating information as food (5/30/12)
Should we pay for prevention? Making health the goal of health care (5/24/12)
Infectious cancers – what you can do (5/21/12)
Regenerating yourself – information is key (5/18/12)
Getting healthy through nature (5/14/12)
“Healthy Without Health Insurance” – 12 Points (5/7/12)
April, 2012
“This is ridiculous” – hospital costs and you (4/30/12)
Social health – getting you and the economy better (4/24/12)
Do clothes make the brain? (4/18/12)
Is chocolate healthy for me? (4/16/12)
When the chickens come home to roost (4/12/12)
Are we fatter than we think? (4/10/12)
Rediscovering social support (and how it aids health – 4/4/12)
Sleepwalking stops vegetarianism (4/2/12)
March, 2012
Surviving with nothing – lessons from bears and men (3/26/12)
Your pilot is falling asleep on the plane. Should you be worried? (3/21/12)
A little knowledge goes a long way – the story of John Snow (3/19/12)
Do you want your kid getting general anesthesia – for their teeth? (3/14/12)
Is your kid snoring? (and what does it mean – 3/12/12)
Privacy and profit – how health records get used (3/7/12)
Can Kim Dotcom help North Korea replace Kim Jong Il (3/5/12)
“Awake” – in dreams begin realities (3/2/12)
February, 2012
Is this really “The End of Illness”? (2/29/12)
The Quick and the dead (2/24/12)
Recycling your own energy (2/22/12)
The medical way to bankruptcy (2/20/12)
When sugar tastes bad (2/15/12)
Does drinking green tea prevent disability? (2/13/12)
Halving Heart Attack Deaths (2/10/12)
Regenerating your body and preventing Alzheimer’s Disease (2/6/12)
What kind of fat is that? (2/03/12)
Why does exercise work? (2/01/12)
January, 2012
Do dolphins sing like whales as they sleep? (1/30/12)
Climate change, flu and you (1/27/12)
Sleepy, noisy hospitals – and how to rest in them (1/25/12)
A different way to diabetes (1/23/12)
Changing the color of your fat (1/20/12)
5 Things to learn from Paula Deen’s diabetes (1/18/12)
Can kids get addicted to the internet? (1/16/12)
Going to the dogs – for your health (1/11/12)
Supercharged breast implants (1/9/12)
Is there an epidemic of sleep apnea in our police? (1/6/12)
The War on Cancer and the War on Terror – what they have in common (1/3/12)
December, 2011
What you eat changes your genes – quickly (12/28/11)
To win the game you stay in the game – football and flexibility (12/27/11)
It’s time to ban drivers’ cell phone use (12/21/11)
Is the flexible workplace a way to save your sleep? (12/19/11)
“Don’t talk to the patient” (12/16/11)
Who can I sleep with safely? (12/14/11)
Can you cut your cancer risk by half? (12/12/11)
Overcoming a bad night’s sleep (12/7/11)
After Iraq and Afghanistan – veterans’ health, PTSD, and sleep apnea (12/5/11)
November, 2011
Is Intermezzo the right kind of sleep medicine? (11/29/11)
Regenerating the economy, regenerating your health Part II (11/28/11)
Regenerating the economy, regenerating your health (Part 1 – 11/23/11)
Are we taking too many pills? (11/21/11)
Booze and sleeping pills – the wrong combination (11/16/11)
Weight, learning, and sleep – it’s all connected (11/14/11)
Your cell phone is a biological part of you (11/11/11)
Senescent cells and the promise of human regeneration (11/7/11)
Obesity – why we can’t lose (11/4/11)
Does your sports team need a sleep doc? (11/2/11)
October, 2011
Sleeping with art – is the museum the new cool place to sleep? (10/31/11)
Confessions of an air traffic controller (10/28/11)
Sleeping beauty – is rest the secret to looking good? (10/26/11)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – a treatable autoimmune disorder (10/24/11)
Will Lazy Cakes come back from the dead? (10/21/11)
Three questions about sleep and sex (10/19/11)
Another forgotten war – food safety, health, and terrorism (10/17/11)
When good things are bad for you – are vitamins too much of a good thing? (10/14/11)
Your life at the speed of light (10/12/11)
Should I eat fish or fish oil? (10/10/11)
Was Conrad Murray Michael Jackson’s “rest” doctor? (10/6/11)
September, 2011
Can marriage make you fat? (9/21/11)
What your brain tells your gut (9/20/11)
Quick focus – 3 fast ways to relaxed concentration (9/15/11)
Underestimating sleep (9/13/11)
Does lack of deep sleep up blood pressure? (9/9/11)
Hot dogs and diabetes (9/6/11)
Sleepless over stocks (9/2/11)
August, 2011
Using hypnosis (Carin Friedman 8/31/11)
Depressed? Use a systems approach to treat it (8/26/11)
If you’ve died from this drug, call this number (8/24/11)
Is rest critical to creativity? (8/23/11)
How to sleep in the heat (8/15/11)
Why we don’t “get” rest (8/12/11)
Twilight consciousness – can you text while asleep? (8/10/11)
What to do when medical care goes away (8/8/11)
Sleep is all about learning (especially when it’s about sex (8/5/11)
Safe to drink? What’s up with relaxation drinks? (8/3/11)
Please don’t wake up – interrupted sleep harms memory (8/01/11)
July, 2011
Relaxation Drinks – cause for anxiety? (7/29/11)
Singing in your sleep (7/25/11)
Even zombies need to sleep (7/22/11)
Legal drugs that can kill you – phenazepam and other disasters (7/20/11)
The end of medical privacy – and how to prepare for it (7/13/11)
New ways to improve sports performance – without drugs (7/8/11)
Do sleeping pills work by making us forget? (7/6/11)
Is controlling electronic media a way to have less fat young kids? (7/5/11)
Stop the big killers (7/01/11)
June, 2011
Rock myself to sleep? (6/29/11)
Electronic insomnia Part II – the future (6/27/11)
Electronic insomnia Part I (6/24/11)
Fantastic future sleep (6/22/11)
Cool yourself to sleep (6/20/11)
When should I exercise to aid sleep? (6/17/11)
The looming Chinese debt (6/10/11)
Is this the missing link between bullying and erectile dysfunction? (6/8/11)
Testosterone – less sleep means less? (6/6/11)
Caffeine, sleep, and memory (6/1/11)
May, 2011
Cholesterol – what do those numbers really mean to me? (5/31/11)
Diet and exercise won’t solve obesity (5/27/11)
Can I avoid Alzheimer’s using “Lifespace”? (5/25/11)
Banned in Arkansas – Lazy Cakes are off the shelves (5/23/11)
Is business travel unhealthy? (5/20/11)
24 seconds to roadkill (5/18/11)
Getting the perfect nap Part II (5/16/11)
Getting the perfect nap Part I (5/13/11)
Do we fall asleep one neuron at a time? (5/11/11)
Controlling weight and diabetes requires real rest (5/9/11)
Right, left or back – what’s best for good sleep? (position matters 5/6/11)
Is it a food or a drug? (5/3/11)
April, 2011
Paralyzed but happy? The strange implications of locked in syndrome (4/27/11)
Predictor or marker – what scientific studies can you believe? (4/25/11)
Use the news – don’t be used by it (4/22/11)
Let air traffic controllers nap (4/20/11)
Depression and insomnia – what causes what? (4/18/11)
A simple way to save 10,000 lives (4/15/11)
Can sex help me sleep? (4/13/11)
Can we evolve to sleep less? (4/11/11)
Cheap and sweet – what food does to health (4/08/11)
Florida does it again – voting to ban children from playing outside (4/06/11)
Let your pilot sleep (4/04/11)
Does sleep loss give me the munchies, or do I just high? (4/01/11)
March, 2011
When your air traffic controller falls asleep (3/30/11)
It’s the middle of the night and you can’t sleep – what you can do (3/28/11)
Lady Gaga goes Gaga over her egg bed (3/24/11)
Can naps make me smarter? (3/22/11)
Does sleep loss make you take bad risks? (3/21/11)
These mistakes can last longer than you – your Electronic Health Record (3/17/11)
Prepare for daylight savings (3/11/11)
Cut your light at night (3/9/11)
Thoughts that keep you up at night (3/8/11)
Are you getting enough sleep? (3/7/11)
Who’s stealing my sleep? (3/04/11)
Your kludgy brain – and how to use it (3/02/11)
Dying to win – Internet gaming and sleeplessness (3/1/11)
February, 2011
Take breaks or you make mistakes (2/28/11)
How your brain processes pain (2/25/11)
Getting undepressed – by yourself (and without drugs 2/23/11)
Fat planet – People are getting bigger, but not everywhere (2/22/11)
Memory problems? Take a walk (2/21/11)
Lazy Cakes – waiting for a new non-prescription drug disaster (2/18/11)
Booze disrupts sleep – and you’re surprised? (2/16/11)
Should Congressmen sleep in their offices? (2/15/11)
Sleeping less to sleep well (2/14/11)
Don’t drink diet soda in Manhattan (2/11/11)
Snorting the cremated remains of Great Danes (+doggie xanax and other tales – 2/10/11)
Putting life into life coaching (2/8/11)
Who’s flying your plane (2/7/11)
Carry a camera for your health (and others’ health, too – 2/4/11)
When chocolate brownies are sleeping pills, people can die (2/2/11)
January, 2011
Saving daylight savings (lighting up your life – 1/28/11)
Would you snort sleeping pills to treat your feet? (Silly uses of sleeping pills – 1/27/11)
Can we learn to multitask? (1/26/11)
Will fabric softener (or comedians) make you sleep better? (1/24/11)
Aflockalypse Now – what the birds and the bees are telling us (1/21/11)
How to sleep anywhere (1/19/11)
Life is fast; so is cancer (1/18/11)
Stand up for your health (1/17/11)
Fibromyalgia, obesity, sleep and pain (1/14/11)
Walk, don’t crave (food, tobacco, and other things – 1/12/11)
Text or phone? Which is healthier? (1/11/11)
Why can’t I rest? Part III – the economy and jobs (1/10/11)
Want to control your weight? Treat food as information (1/6/11)
Why can’t I rest? Learning how to regenerate yourself (1/5/11)
Why can’t I rest Part 2 – how to not worry about sleep (1/4/11)
Your different states of consciousness (1/3/11)
December, 2010
Provigil – secret uses of stimulants (12/31/10)
Your New Year’s Revolutions (12/29/10)
How should I sleep (and rest) when I diet? (12/28/10)
Did Neanderthals get depressed? (12/27/10)
Caffeine, alcohol, and the holidays (12/23/10)
Can you really get beauty sleep? (12/22/10)
You think you’re covered? The health insurance pre-authorization con (12/21/10)
Don’t ask, don’t tell health care (12/10/10)
Twelve ways to fix your internet addled brain (12/17/10)
The Four Hour Body – How Not to Become Superhuman (12/16/10)
Your neighbor’s smoke is also yours (and its radioactive – 12/14/10)
Can sleepwalking kill me, or is inattention more lethal? (12/13/10)
Health care is putting the US out of business (12/10/10)
Can poor sleep harm my heart? (12/08/10)
Facebook for Sleep? (12/07/10)
If I get sick can I blame the weather? (12/06/10)
Even the CIA doesn’t trust your health care (12/03/10)
How the Internet will change your body – part IV – making the Net improve your health (12/02/10)
How the Internet will change your body – part III – virtual me and real me (12/01/10)
November, 2010
How the internet will change your body – Part II – interruption and stress (11/30/10)
How the internet will change your body – Part I – getting fatter fast (11/29/10)
Three questions that can save your life (11/27/10)
How you can take time off and get more done (11/24/10)
Don’t stuff the wrong turkey (11/22/10)
Don’t let daylight savings get you down (11/21/10)
Are you restless? Sleep Loss, Irritability, the Internet and Violence (11/19/10)
Does long sleep provoke strokes? (11/17/11)
Are smokers made or born? Biological clocks and smoking (11/16/11)
October, 2010
Music to fall asleep to (10/30/10)
Is my chair dangerous to my health? (10/27/10
Position Matters – The right side is not always right (10/26/10)
The Spanish Siesta Champion Wins, but the Siesta and Naps Lose (10/25/10)
Leaving rehab – what to do when you’re out (10/21/10)
Pain, fibromyalgia, illness and rest (10/20/10)
Weight, light and body clocks – timing dining right (10/19/10)
Sleep for Success – The Spanish Siesta Championships (10/18/10)
Can We Walk Away from Alzheimer’s? (10/15/10)
Why Can’t I Wake Up? (10/14/10)
Don’t Eat at Night (What happens if you do) 10/13/10
Use It or Lose it – Why You May Never Want to Retire (10/12/10)
What does alcohol do to my sleep? (10/11/10)
Body clocks time your regeneration and renewal (10/10/10)
Theatrically sleeping (10/8/10)
Some don’t need much sleep (10/7/10)
Why don’t we eat vegetables? (The Sugar Society) – 10/6/10)
Sleep your way to weight loss? (10/5/10)
Grunting in tennis – sports, noise and the brain (10/4/10)
Regeneration and cancer (10/3/10)
Why do I gain weight if I rest less? The 60-7 rule (10/1/10)
September 2010
Calming the everyday crisis (9/30/10)
Celebrity Rehab and the Power of Rest (9/29/10)
Health, not Health Care (9/28/10)
Regeneration – how to spur creativity and productivity (9/27/10)
Regeneration – The Health Insurance No One Can Take From You (9/26/10)
Is melatonin really like crack (9/24/10)?
Can physical activity make me smarter?
You’re never the same – which keeps you alive
Murder – caffeine made me do it
What happens when you “veg out?” (9/19/10)
Want to cure insomnia? Move (reasons to go FAR 9/17/10)
Pill=Sleep? Seven Secrets of Sleeping Pills (9/16/10)
Is lack of rest making kids fatter, dumber, angrier and sicker?
Why does lack of toddler sleep make them obese?
A new way to rest – the UnNap Nap
There’s no way to rest like music
No time for downtime? Here’s how to recharge your brain
Overloaded: 7 Things You Should Know About Your Internet-Interrupted Brain
Can we stop laboring on Labor Day?
August, 2010
Improve Sports Performance – Get the Right Rest
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