MARCH 2012How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our ( Read more... )

Zoonotic Infections: Your Pets Can Make You Sick

Suzanne Albrecht, PharmD, MSLIS
Freelance Medical Writer
Woodstock, Illinois
8/19/2011

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Zoonoses are diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans. It is estimated that 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses.1 Zoonoses are a huge problem in agriculture with ( Read more... )

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The Hard Part

Peter Greene
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07/06/2014 7:08 pm EDT

They never tell you in teacher school, and it's rarely discussed elsewhere. It is never, ever portrayed in movies and tv shows about teaching. Teachers rarely bring it up around non-teachers for fear it will make us look weak or inadequate.

Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post once put ( Read more... )

The Healthy Eating Plate


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Food Pyramids and Plates: What Should You Really Eat?

Introduction: The Best Guides to a Healthy Diet

Nearly two decades ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created a powerful icon: the Food Guide Pyramid. This simple illustration conveyed in a flash what the USDA said were the elements of a healthy diet. The Pyramid was taught in schools ( Read more... )

‘Thinking of Ways to Harm Her’
New Findings on Timing and Range of Maternal Mental Illness

By PAM BELLUCK

JUNE 15, 2014

Postpartum depression isn’t always postpartum. It isn’t even always depression. A fast-growing body of research is changing the very definition of maternal mental illness, showing that it is more common and varied than ( Read more... )

"In that way I missed New York. I knew the city was not mine forever, that I would leave it. Perhaps I should leave it. Even after the New Orleans expenses, my savings account was growing, and travel was once again an option. I felt a frantic need to return and take advantage of everything New York provided. My time up north felt as if it were ( Read more... )