Life &Medicine Entropy | 03 Jan 2010
In the words of Carl Jung – “Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.” At New York [...]
Medicine &Thought Provoking Entropy | 22 Oct 2008
Please read this feature by Katherine Ashenburg published in Orion Magazine , on our misdirected “Extreme Hygiene Zeal” and its detrimental consequences. In fact ‘‘We’ve become cognizant of the footrace between man and microbes with antibiotic resistance,” said Dr. Richard P. Wenzel, ”We’ve also gone overboard trying to kill everything in the environment.” which in [...]
Medicine Entropy | 07 Jun 2007
Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness. But forgetting is also a blessing, and researchers reported on Sunday that the ability to block certain memories reduces the demands on the brain when it is [...]
Medicine Entropy | 17 May 2007
1966 ROCHE VALIUM (Diazepam) launch Advertisement The Benzodiazepine Era In the mid-1960s, a new group of sedatives, known as tranquilizers was introduced. Returning to a group of compounds he had worked on previously, Leo Sternbach discovered the benzodiazepines, a new class of agents. In 1960, Librium® (chlordiazepoxide) was introduced for the management of emotional, psychosomatic [...]
Medicine Entropy | 05 May 2007
The Eyes Have It- Pl Refer attached link and explore http://www.leepotts.com/tehi/ Edited by graphic designer Lee W. Potts, this innovative site examines visual communications in the pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare sectors. Driven by WordPress weblogging software, the site takes a blog format, where dated posts appear in chronological order, but posts can also be browsed [...]
Medicine &Thought Provoking Entropy | 28 Oct 2006
The Median Isn’t the Message by Stephen Jay Gould Prefatory Note by Steve Dunn Stephen Jay Gould was an influential evolutionary biologist who taught at Harvard University. He was the author of at least ten popular books on evolution, and science, including, among others, The Flamingo’s Smile, The Mismeasure of Man, Wonderful Life, and Full [...]