New Gene Mutation Discovery By ALS Association Consortium
is Major Breakthrough in Lou Gehrig’s Disease Research, a report from The ALS Association’s National Office Feb. 26, 2009
In one of the most significant breakthroughs in the recent history of ALS research, a consortium of scientists organized and funded by The ALS Association has discovered a new gene, ALS6 (Fused [...]
Avoid the sun. Wear sunblock. That’s my summer mantra. Now that I’ve had some skin cancer removed, I’m even more paranoid about sun exposure.
The darkest time of the year is here, so you’d think I could relax about sun exposure as I enter my annual winter hermit state, covered up and shivering by the hearth. But no, I [...]
Maybe I’m exaggerating a bit by saying coffee is a miracle drink, but it sure feels that way in the morning when I brew my first batch. I have a cheap cappuccino maker, which barely sputters the milk into foam. But who cares about foam? The important thing is that the coffee elixir is saturated with caffeine. All [...]
This is a chigger, enlarged about 1,500 times. Chiggers are red until they are engorged, when they turn yellow. They feed on our dissolved skin cells, not blood. (Photo — Dr. W. Calvin Webourn, the Ohio State Acarology Laboratory.)
Since I’m still scratching like crazy, I decided to get serious about avoiding more chigger bites. (See [...]
“A Latter-Day Gehrig Survives, and He Demands to Be Heard,” link to a story about ALS from the New York Times
A few people you meet will have a huge impact on your life, even when you don’t realize it at the time. Keith Worthington was such a person. I met Worthington in 1982. His courage and [...]
