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Posted on February 3, 2010
Written By Bradford P Smith, Professor Emeritus For the last 30 years the only foreign animal diseases (FAD) that have had to be eradicated in the US are those of birds; highly pathogenic avian influenza in 1985 and 2004 and exotic Newcastle disease in 2003. Pet birds and fighting cocks were the source of recent [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2010
Written By Bradford P Smith, Professor Emeritus* First a disclaimer….The writer* is 65 years old and still rides a bicycle up hills for an average of 1.5 hours a day, back country skis, hikes in the Sierras, travels to interesting places like national parks, Africa and the Galapagos Islands, and has an active family and [...]
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Posted on February 3, 2010
Written by Bradford P Smith, Prof Emeritus (Excerpted from the Harvard Health Publications online) As you know, there are two types of fat cells. And it turns out that like cholesterol, there are the good guys and the bad guys! White fat cells store most of our body fat, whether it is subcutaneous or visceral. [...]
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Posted on December 2, 2009
By Christopher Herndon, M.D. People have been using plants as materia medica since the dawn of history. Medicinal plants have been found in the Shanidar IV cave site in Iraq dating from 60-80,000 years ago. A fur strap found on the wrist of the 5,000 year-old Ice Man from the Alps contained threaded fragments of [...]
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