Category Archives: Science & Health

The creation of a mandate to carry insurance is the latest idea coming out of Sacramento to remedy the health insurance crisis. Unfortunately, this kind of proposal may not be the right solution. According to the 2003 California Health Interview Survey, 6.6 million Californians are uninsured. The uninsured are disproportionately young and employed. They do […]

“¢bull; President Bush asked his father and Bill Clinton, former political adversaries, to lead the American effort to raise private funds for tsunami relief. The former presidents said they planned to deliver a report to President Bush on March 8. “¢bull; Former Presidents Bush and Clinton then embarked on a tour of the tsunami-stricken regions […]

Whoever said biological research is cut and dry has not set up pitfall traps to catch lizards in Cameroon or tagged them using tattoos in the Bahamas. The graduate students of the Center for Tropical Research have studied all over the world, with all types of people and with all different species. Yet all the […]

The mudslides caused by recent torrential rains in Southern California can be attributed in part to historic errors made back when cattle outnumbered unstable hillsides. “Los Angeles developed as a small cow town in the lowlands, and Sunset Boulevard was nothing more than cow trails to the coast,” said Antony Orme, a professor of geography […]

A UCLA study has further confirmed the potential and potency of an anti-cancer agent brewed in a pot. Green tea extract has been shown to selectively inhibit the growth and spread of cancer cells, leaving normal cells untouched. An obstacle in cancer treatments is a means of targeting tumor cells without damaging healthy tissue. The […]

“¢bull; Hours after the Dec. 26 tsunami struck the eastern Sri Lanka village, an infant was found by a neighbor on a beach among bodies and debris and taken to a hospital. Doctors dubbed him “˜”˜Baby 81” because he was the day’s 81st admission. Nine grieving, distraught women initially claimed him, but only one, Jenita […]

Greenhouse gases, on the rise since industrialization first began, have impacted the earth’s climate to the point of increasing the atmospheric temperature by one degree. It appears that the temperature increase is only one in a plethora of environmental damages caused by greenhouses gasses. Greenhouse gases include, among other gasses, carbon dioxide (released via burning […]