Moore Lowdown
PulsePoint: An App with Lifesaving Potential
February 04, 2014 | Got cardiac arrest? There's an app for that, and it's called PulsePoint. With any luck it's coming to a town near you. And it just might save your life—or help you save someone else's
Moore Lowdown
Organ Donation Compensation: A Simple Solution or Inevitable Inequity?
January 26, 2014 | No doubt allowing people to sell their organs would increase the supply for those awaiting transplants. But would the societal benefits of such a move be offset by a further widening of the gap between the rich and poor?
Best Medicine
Prostate Cancer Part Deux, Here I Go Again
January 23, 2014 | When all is said and done and the experiences I have had over the last little while have become just another hot flash in my memory, I want cancer to be only a footnote in my life story as opposed to a chapter heading
Celebrity Health
Here's to a Hangover-Free New Year
December 31, 2013 | Bringing in the New Year with a hangover doesn't have to be an annual event. So what do celebrities do when they want to indulge, but showing up looking like Frankenstein is not a good idea?
Celebrity Health
Lower Your Expectations
November 28, 2013 | Holidays...the “most wonderful time of the year," we all know that's a joke because it's actually the most stressful time of the year. Maybe it's because every year we go into them with unrealistic expectations
Celebrity Health
Have you ever met a Vampire? Are you sure?
October 03, 2013 | When it comes to vampires, most people think of the classic Hollywood image of the suave Transylvanian Count, or if you’re 14 you think of the sparkly Cullen family, right?
Celebrity Health
Halloween...Who’s Tricking Who?
October 02, 2013 | We know that candy isn’t exactly good for us, but have you ever thought about what eating so much of it does to a child’s small body - Stacy Matson
Dr. X
Who on Earth Would Have Thought
October 02, 2013 | Once in a while when Dr X has been at sea too long he has been known to suffer from flashbacks, although some insist they may be hallucinations from all those past night shifts. This incident happened toward the end of his career
Dr. X
Code Alpha - The Beginning of the End
August 15, 2013 | Why does the misery and misfortune of others, people we don't even know, affect Dr X so much? Perhaps it's part of what makes us social animals. We share. Sometimes food, sometimes information, our gossip, sometimes just our company
Health Musings
Get More Than Sushi With Your Sushi
August 01, 2013 | Eating sushi can be hazardous, but then again so can eating healthy. I don't eat sushi. I don't like it for one, but the thought of eating raw fish really does turn my stomach. And to top it off in 2012 there was an outbreak of salmonellosis
