Human Interest
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PREVENTING FALLS
The United States Preventive Services Task force (USPSTF) is front and center once again. This time with good intentions and…
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PET THERAPY AS TREATMENT FOR ANXIETY
In today’s high stress world, anywhere you go you may you may encounter a person accompanied by an animal. It…
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GRILLING: IS IT SLOWLY KILLING ME?
In Arizona, cooking outside with my gas grill is possible year round. Until I became physically unable to grill chicken,…
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HAS I.U. BASKETBALL LOST ITS WAY?
The flow of information about Indiana University basketball coming from Simon-Skjodt Assembly Hall has changed from a tsunami in the…
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OBESITY REDEFINED
For decades, Body Mass Index (BMI) has been the parameter used to measure obesity. If your BMI was 25 or…
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CLASS BASKETBALL: BAD FOR INDIANA?
I think any “red-blooded” Hoosier fan my age (81) would agree that high school basketball, as we knew it, died…
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THE PLACEBO EFFECT REVISITED
Several years ago, I wrote a blog titled “The Placebo Effect.” In it, I wrote about how important this psychological…
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THE NEW STATE OF IU BASKETBALL
Add: Had I waited one day before writing this, my concern would have been answered. The INDY STAR and Facebook,…
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A FEW MORE COMMON DIAGNOSES: HEARD OF THESE?
I realize I have written about the same subject the last two times, and the title of this post is…
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HAVE YOU HEARD OF THESE DISEASES?: TWO
To further challenge your curiosity and intellect, I submit a second list of 20 diagnoses you may have never heard…
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