Celebrity Health
Robin Williams - It’s All in the Eyes
August 21, 2014 | Although depression is still a taboo subject, perhaps Robin Williams’ death will help us do a better job understanding the causes, put more resources into treating the symptoms, and help find ways to keep people from deciding on suicide
Moore Lowdown
The Unhealthy Side of Celebrity Influence
August 19, 2014 | If a celebrity says it's so, somewhere there are hundreds or thousands or millions of people who believe it. So what to do when celebrity truths are dubious or flat-out falsehoods?
Moore Lowdown
What the Israel-Palestine Conflict Can Teach Us About National Health
August 12, 2014 | The goings-on in Gaza are big news right now. But the current flare-up is symptomatic of the perpetual unhealthiness—physical, psychological, and moral—that plagues the region.
Celebrity Health
Ebola - Here, There and Everywhere
August 11, 2014 | I wouldn’t be worried to sit next to someone with the Ebola virus on the Tube, as long as they don’t vomit on you or something - Peter Piot co-discoverer of Ebola 1976
Celebrity Health
Hooked on Hookah
July 28, 2014 | Hookah is healthier and less addictive than cigarettes, right? Think again. Results of several studies suggest that hookah is far more dangerous than cigarettes.
Moore Lowdown
Screening Yourself from Both UV Rays and Bogus Information
July 21, 2014 | You're better off without sunscreen. At least, that's what a few recent articles are telling you. But guess what you're really better off without?
Moore Lowdown
When Government Should Keep Its Hands Off the Wheel
July 05, 2014 | A recent brouhaha over government restrictions on the aging of cheese is a case in point of how the feds sometimes seem not to know where they're needed and where they're not.
Moore Lowdown
Soylent and the False Equivalency of Food and Nutrition
June 10, 2014 | A food-replacement product is getting a lot of buzz. But for all that might be gained by maximizing the efficiency of one's nutritional intake, so much more might be lost.
Moore Lowdown
Fixing Our Priorities; or, Writing Blank Checks to Bureaucracies Is Always a Bad Idea
June 04, 2014 | Los Angeles County voters awarded schools billions of dollars for upgrades and repairs. But half a decade later administrators are supplying students with iPads, even though the backlog for basic repairs runs into the tens of thousands.
Moore Lowdown
Incarceration Nation: America's Unhealthy Obsession with Jailing Its Citizens
May 21, 2014 | Over the last 40 years the United States has sacrificed schools and other means of social betterment so as to incarcerate a greater number of nonviolent offenders than ever before. It's a practice that has damaged the fabric of our nation...
