Somebody Please Plant Some Tannat Grapevines!
Category: Commentary
Before we all jump into the station wagon to hightail it down to the local liquor store a few sobering facts must be put in the record.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:44 PM • •
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The Sunday Night Poem: Wilfred Owen
Category: Literary
He was killed by German machine gun fire on November 4, 1918 while wading across the Sambre-Oise Canal in northern France. His mother received the telegram announcing his death one week later, on Armistice Day.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 6:58 PM • 1 Comments •
November 27, 2006
It's Monday - Time to Get Back to Work!
Category: Commentary
Since I know I'm not the only poor soul swamped with post-Thanksgiving chores and Rodin-like cogitations I offer some brief headlines for perusal by those interested in the status of health on Mothership Earth. Smokers At Greater Risk of Alcohol-Use...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:44 PM • 6 Comments •
November 23, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving
Category: Lyrical
Wishing you all the blessings of family, work, friendship, faith and most of all good health. If I may I'd like to show you a piece from one of my favorite artists - Daniel Garber (1880-1958). For more information about...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:57 PM • 3 Comments •
November 20, 2006
The Dark Side of Stem Cells
Category: Commentary
If you are interested in stem cell research, the biology of cancer cells or promising new targets for anti-cancer therapy, today is your lucky day. Two new studies, one from Italy and one from Canada, both report an astonishing finding:...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:55 PM • 6 Comments •
November 19, 2006
The Sunday Night Poem - W. B. Yeats
Category: Literary
[Editor's note: The narrator has been begging me for months to let him post some poetry on this site, using the argument that unless we promote the world's greatest poems, the collective I.Q. of this country is going to drop...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:22 PM • 2 Comments •
November 18, 2006
Cigarettes and Cervices Syzygial? Who Knew?
Category: Anti-smoking
In a hypothetical setting one could tell a teenage daughter who smokes and is sexually active that if she were diagnosed with HPV-16 infection now, her risk of developing cervical cancer over the next decade is 1400% higher.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 12:25 PM • 10 Comments •
November 15, 2006
Classical Rhetoric in Medicine: Optatio
Category: Literary
A chest CT revealed the suspicious lesions, some plastered up against the pleural lining like a mud dauber's nest, some floating in the lung parenchyma like bubbles in the airy meadow.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:26 PM • 2 Comments •
November 14, 2006
"Gimme a Double Soybean Curd Burger with Pickles, and a Towel to Cry In, Please"
Category: Commentary
I realize that one study doesn't prove the world is flat, but there seems to be an ever growing body of evidence that today's beef is not healthy for some of us.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 1:16 PM • 3 Comments •
November 10, 2006
The Case of the Missing Blood
Category: Humor
My name's Percival Clive Woolfardisworthy. I'm a private eye. More specifically, I'm a non-board certified hematologist in private practice, but I like to think of myself as a shamus, not to mention I wish my name was Sam Spade instead of Percival Clive Woolfardisworthy.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:26 AM • 1 Comments •
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