Aug 15, 2009
Ah…Some Changes has to Occur
CUBA | MEDICINE Cuban cancer drug undergoes rare U.S. trial An `exciting' cancer drug developed in Cuba is being tested in the United States -- but it won't be sold…
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Aug 15, 2009
Alain de Boton A philosopher of Everyday Life
Philosopher of Everyday Life Alain de Boton is being paid 30 000 pounds to stay at the London Healthrow terminal 5 to observe and write about the life among the…
Aug 15, 2009
A Death to Mourn For
Feel immensely sad about the demise of Edward Kennedy, the man who came from behind and was a prominent senator and indefatiguable champion of health care for the poor. I…
Aug 15, 2009
Healthy Eating is the Best Revenge
HEALTHY EATING IS THE BEST REVENGE Over 23 000 German Citizens were followed for development of Type 2 DM, Myocardial Infarction, Stroke and Cancer. They were between the ages of…
Aug 15, 2009
Baracoa Mi Pueblocito Querido.. como Extrano!
Above Mari 1 in 2003. TEARS OF JOY FOR MY LITTLE TOWN, BARACOA IN CUBA Mi querido Sudha, quiero que sepas que aunque no te escribo mucho, porque se me…
Aug 15, 2009
Fructose and Gout
Fructose and Gout In 1970, Prof (now emeritus) Fiorenzo Stirpe of Univesity of Bologna in Italy wrote a letter to The Lancet, the medical journal published in London, England, informing…
Jul 15, 2009
Thalasso in Quiberon
In Brittany with its wild coast and a lifestyle tied to the sea, for a couple of hundred of years, they had discovered the medicinal properties of sea water and…
Jul 15, 2009
Last Saturday in Havana and this Saturday…
I am at the Quiberon peninsula, which may have been an island once upon a time but lying across from off shore islands inBrittany, this is a quiet place, to…
Jul 15, 2009
Happy Birthday America and Shabbat Shalom
I have made so many good friends who now live or have lived in the United States of America..some are forgotten and others remain close to my heart as the…
Jul 15, 2009
Cuban Heart and Parisian Mind and Sefardi Stomach
Newly found Love for Paris One thing you would learn living in Cuba is that you are curious about most things and you become very observant. when you show someone…
Jul 15, 2009
Cultural Frankensteins of Cuba
Cultural Frankenstein How the foreigners fail to transact symbols in Cuba. Sometimes, it is interesting to see a Cuban walking by, and your immediate thought is Here goes a cultural…
Jul 15, 2009
What is an Oriental Jewish Boy doing here …
at the second oldest european settlement in Nebraska? at a Church Hall? PM is a patient of mine, and had impressed me with his curiosity about his medical condition and…