There's a precious moment in an episode of TV's Boston Legal when Denny Crane, the ‘mad-cow-diseased' founding attorney reflects, “It’s fun being me," that struck home with enough viewers to create a t-shirt with those words. Is it middle age when we first become truly comfortable with who we are? We’re not very different in the way we think, talk, or behave from when we were younger… we’ve just stopped fixing our personalities for other people. If we just didn’t have to fix our eyes, ears, joints, and various other parts of our bodies that break down, we’d be perfect!
Attempts to trick human immune systems into fighting HIV and prostate
cancer cells have had little success, mainly because the these cells
keep managing to elude recognition as "bad" cells. But a new study,
conducted by researchers at Yale University, may change that direction
in the not-too-distant future.
A tasty, easy-to-digest food product that young and old adore,
that would help limit the ravaging effects of chemotherapy on the
stomach and intestines, is crying to be developed. But just what might that
food be?
In a breakthrough discovery, scientists at the University of Cambridge have found the gene responsible for the spread of almost half of all breast cancers and say it is possible that the same gene contributes to the spread of other cancers such as prostate, ovarian, bladder, and bowel cancers.
A study at the Women's Health Program at Monash
University in Australia explored the links between sexual satisfaction
and other aspects of mental health, particularly "well-being" and
"vitality." Don't shy off there, boomers... the research included
women aged 20 to 65!
"Sleepless in toothpaste land?" may sound like a weird title for a column about a toothpaste. But Pearly Dreams is a weird toothpaste. It's supposed to make you... sleep. There are all kinds of solutions for sleeplessness... tapes, meditation, sleeping pills, sex, supplements, drinking till you pass out.... why not one more?
eMedi-ID, a franchise business that provides personal medical information to first responders via USB devices on their customers' keyrings, has just come out with a new device capable of tracking a person's whereabouts via global positioning satellites (GPS)
Remember how much you enjoyed Christmas, until you learned that Santa
was really your parents? Or how much you loved swimming in the ocean,
until you saw the movie Jaws? Well, this news may hit you in much the same way....
... Sure, you can buy
about 10 plastic patio tables for the cost... but the Teak Shower Seat
is so much smarter. It stayed in school until it was ready to do the
job.