Best Medicine
Kratom: Jekyll or Hyde?
July 27, 2017 | Have you heard of the latest legal drug craze to hit a gas station near you? It’s called Kratom, and unlike bath salts, Spice or any of the synthetic, formerly ”legal” drugs on the DEA hit list, this one is entirely organic - David DiSalvo
Moore Lowdown
Play as a Way to Ameliorate Poverty
July 24, 2017 | The benefits children get from play are incalculable, yet the children who may need it most tend to get the least of it.
Moore Lowdown
Proposition 47: Legal Aid for Turning Over a New Leaf
July 20, 2017 | An unprecedented experiment in mass forgiveness giving some felons a chance to rewrite their past so that they -- and perhaps society-- have a better shot at a brighter future.
Moore Lowdown
Pay-to-Stay Jails Another Symptom of the Sickness of Financial Inequality
July 16, 2017 | A guy walks in to behind bars. It's a nicer jail than it would have been otherwise because he can afford it. It's no joke: "pay-to-stay" is unequal justice by design.
Best Medicine
Thank God for Medicare
June 22, 2017 | Considering I was born in the 6th month of the 49th year of the last century, you might say I had just won the jackpot in cancer’s Blotto 649
Moore Lowdown
Postpartum Depression in Men? New Research Says Yes
June 22, 2017 | For millennia we have seen links between childbirth and depression. But a new study suggesting that fathers can also be susceptible make help take our understanding of the condition beyond the biological.
Moore Lowdown
The Pros and Cons of the Probiotics Trend
June 19, 2017 | Probiotics are here, and they're spreading across the country. But they've always been here. The only question is whether we should follow the hype and go out of your way to get more of them.
Moore Lowdown
Time for Mammograms to Be a Thing of the Past?
June 08, 2017 | A new study is merely the latest suggesting that mammograms may net more harm than good. With a new "breast-friendly" procedure in the works, perhaps now is the time to put the mammogram out to pasture.
Moore Lowdown
You Are Recycling (Even) Less Than You Think You Are
May 29, 2017 | There's more to recycling than meets the eye. The paper coffee cup, for example. Looks recyclable, right? Relatively environmentally-friendly? Nuh-uh.
Celebrity Health
Bob Harper’s Broken Heart
May 17, 2017 | I’m slowing down and relishing in every moment. I get up every day and know that I’m super lucky - Bob Harper
