Health News Archive

So how do you like your eggs? Sunnyside up or not at all?


As if decades-long concerns about high cholesterol in eggs wasn’t enough, now we’re in the midst of probably the biggest egg recall in history. I’m sure you’ve read about all the fuss over salmonella risks associated with, oh, something like half a million egg this last week. So far I haven’t heard or read anything [...]

Medical problems continue to challenge our family


Medical problems related to my wife’s heart continue to challenge — or “plague,” depending on your perspective, I guess — our family as summer starts to cool and wind down. I doubt the hot summer we’ve been having had much to do with it, but certainly it’s easier to face daily or weekly crises when [...]

Autism rate in America seems astonishingly high to me


I was doing some research trying to understand more about autism, when I came across an article indicating that the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now puts the rate of autism nationally at one in 110 children. The article I read wasn’t exactly clear on what that number really means, but I [...]