No Benefit Without Risk – Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Tylenol

Many medications are available only by prescription (unless you own a computer or travel to another country).  That is because of the risks that accompany their use. When drugs become available we tend to believe that availability is some sort of certification that they are safe, and weak compared to prescription meds. Not true. Recent […]

Electo-magnetic Radiation and Asthma

Over time we have gotten used to the idea that some things we cannot see, can still cause us harm.  In fact, much longer ago, say 1,500 years, people were concerned about vaporous humors floating out of swamps and causing illnesses.  Those ethereal malefic influences often proved to be tiny creatures like mosquitoes carrying invisible […]