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Despite the worldwide microbial soup that is slowly coming to a boil, Americans have enjoyed peace of mind and relative immunity from the threat of tropical diseases. Climate restrictions, rapid mortality, and restrictions of travel time and distance all have combined to keep savage, newly emergent viruses like Ebola and Dengue out of the American public consciousness…. until recently. Read the rest of this entry »

How would you like to sweeten that coffee, tea, or lemonade without the worries of added calories, blood sugar roller coaster rides, or tooth decay? Believe it or not there is a sweetener that can do all of that and more! Not only does it sweeten, but it is also good for you! It is chock full of nutrients: protein, calcium, and phosphorous, just to name a few.

Why haven’t you heard of Stevia? Here in the United States, Stevia is FDA approved only as a dietary supplement, not as a food additive. Manufacturers are not legally able to call Stevia a sugar substitute. As a result, few people know of Stevia, what it is, or for what it is used. Read the rest of this entry »

Any astute observer of the dot-com investment world knows we will see an inevitable backlash. A variety of investors, pundits and commentators will soon begin proclaiming the death of the Internet.

Of course, the backlash won’t be surprising — after all, lots of these folks have lost lots of money in the recent tech stock collapse, and they have to do something with their anger. Why not lash out at the Internet itself?

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Tennis elbow is a term used to describe soreness or pain in the elbow. Tennis elbow, also called epicondylitis, occurs when there is inflammation in the end of the tendons (tendinitis) that connect the muscles of the forearm, wrist, and hand to the upper arm bone at the elbow. Click here to see an illustration of tennis elbow. Read the rest of this entry »

The rotator cuff is a group of four rotator cuff tendons that cover the shoulder joint. The rotator cuff tendons connect the muscles to the upper arm bone (humerus). The tendons attach to the upper arm bone like the end of a shirt sleeve cuff, which allows the arm to rotate or move up, down, in, and out. Click here to see an illustration of the shoulder and rotator cuff tendons. Read the rest of this entry »

Of the seven people who died of the disease in 1999, one was a 75-year old Canadian who had visited New York City in September 1999, and died after returning to Toronto. The implications of this fact are frightening, and surely caused public outcry in Canada, a country with as strict of agricultural-environmental standards as immigration standards. While the CDC states that WNV is not contagious from person to person (which means passengers on the Canadian victim’s flight were not at risk from his presence), the increasing number of vulnerable wildlife species is sufficient reason for Canadian concern. Furthermore, the Canadian victim’s case illustrates how a person infected with a potentially disastrous viral disease can cross international boundaries unnoticed. Questions such as “What if it was an aerosolized (air-borne) virus?” and “What if it had been something more severe, like hemorrhagic fever?” are bound to be asked. Again, the insufficiency of public health policy in both Canada and the US comes under fire. Read the rest of this entry »