Facts and ideas from anywhere
William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief
Topics covered in this issue:
• Cholesterol attack
• Planetary and environmental consequences of eating bovine and porcine muscle
• Animal agriculture and global warming
• Greenland's ice sheet and global warming
• Animal rights
• It's the farm bill, stupid
• Cloned meat and milk
• Safety of imported foods
• Restaurant food
• Too much salt
• Calories and exercise
• Calorie counts on menus
• Premedical grand round calories
• Wine drinking and omega-3 fatty acids
• Wellness programs, lawyers, and laws
• Vagus nerve blockage and weight loss
• Heart disease death rates
• Genome scans
• Vaccinations
• Chlamydia
• Teen pill pops
• Teenage pregnancies
• US abortions
• Birth control pill and cancer
• Regret
• State executions
• Judah Folkman (1933-2008)
• J. Robert Cade, MD, and Gatorade
• DeBakey and Cooley
• The AIDS doctor is retiring
• Dr. Henry Gray, Dr. H. V. Carter, and Gray's Anatomy
• J. K. Rowling
• Parental visiting of hospitalized children
• Foreign-born students and research doctorates awarded by US universities
• Baby boomers retire
• The Lancet and Iraqi casualties
• Military boom in Guam
• Coffee from Seattle
• Where the US money has gone
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