I know, we’re living fresh-ish–it’s all “Sparkling water with lemon, please!” But sometimes the ice cold beer or tasty sake-tini or simple a glass of antioxidant-rich wine just calls. And calls, and calls…. I know for me, since chemo, any more than two drinks and I am an absolute headachey, room-spinny mess with a very bad…

You may have read or heard about (or maybe you saw it live) the on-camera accident last week in which “Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien suffered a mild concussion.  He had to stop taping the show, then he was taken to the hospital for observation after slipping on the floor while taping a scene with…

Every time I go to my dentist, I ask him if he’s heard any new conventional wisdom on how to get rid of canker sores.  And every time, he responds by giving me a lecture about how research dollars are being spent elsewhere, on more important things, like, you know, real diseases. Yeah, ok.  I…

Last March, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops released a statement calling the ancient Japanese healing practice of reiki “superstition” that “finds no support either in the findings of natural science or in Christian belief.” The issue largely disappeared from most headlines after the initial buzz, but it re-emerged this week as the Boston Globe…

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