Coughing Up the Facts on Whooping Cough

A whooping cough epidemic was declared in California on June 24, 2010. Every three to five years whooping cough, or pertussis, cases spike upward. The most recent epidemic of whooping cough in California was declared in 2005. Just as regularly as whooping cough outbreaks come around, reports appear in the media blaming the outbreak on [...]

The Germ Theory of Life

I received some startling news the other day that left me totally bugged. “You’re going to just stand there and tell me that 90 percent of the total cells I carry around in my body are microbes?” I gasped. “Get over yourself,” my friend the microbe expert said offhandedly, surprised I didn’t know this already. [...]

Pre-Medicine for Pre-Problems

“Houston, we’ve got a pre-problem.” The pharmaceutical companies have done it again, they have proven the depth of their genuine concern for the health of our entire citizenry. They are so concerned, they are “pre-concerned.” And what does this mean? It means that scientists working for the pharmaceutical companies believe they have discovered a key [...]