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Source of Spirituality Found

Obviously religion and spirituality are not the same thing (one can have a lot of one of these without much of the other). Prior studies have found that religious ideation involves diffuse brain cortical areas in the frontal and parietal lobes but feelings of spirituality appear to involve at least two much more focal areas
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Is Cocaine Really That Harmful?

In 1986, Maryland basketball player and NBA 2nd overall draft choice, Len Bias had a seizure and died from a single intranasal dose of cocaine. In 2010 one guy uses cocaine to "unwind" on the weekends and wonders if it really is that dangerous....

Phobia of the Day

And the phobia* of the day is: “Wrongcontextophobia“. The fear of sending a sensitive and personal text to the wrong contact on your smart phone (or in the wrong context). *If this prevents you from using text or causes significant difficulty, then it’s a phobia. If it does not then it’s just a fear....

Baby Do’s and Don’ts

The more you know!...

Vaccines: Victims of Poor Marketing

Obviously vaccinations suffer from a battered public image these days. What is needed is a new advertising campaign....

When “Difficult Patients” Attack

We know these people by different names. All too often they use and abuse our legal systems to spread their misery throughout the world....

Is the Vegetative Patient Aware?

Relatively new imaging techniques have found evidence of conscious awareness in a minority of traumatic injury patients diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state....

Abstinence-only Education Works After Religion is Taken Out

Abstinence-only sex education has never been shown to work well. What if they just threw out all of that "no sex until marriage" stuff and instead, focused on the hazards of teenage sexual activity?...

The Diabolical Plan of Lawyers and Democrats to Keep Down Health Care Costs

Trial lawyers and Democrats already know what happens to the practice patterns of physicians when their malpractice liability goes up. That's why Washington has all but ignored national medical malpractice reform lately....

Physicians and Substance Abuse

There are a ton of misconceptions and outright falsehoods regarding doctors and substance abuse problems. This is not helped by media reports that make it seem as if physicians are abusing every substance "under the sun". There is not an army of crazy, addicted, physician zombies out there ready to eat your brains....