As many of you know, I lost my precious pug Felicity last year on Dec. 18. As part of my grieving process I have been fostering dogs for the local shelter and while this has been fulfilling, I still feel like there is something missing in my life.
Dear Doctor: I heard two teenagers in line at the drug store talking about the skin microbiome and how you shouldn’t use soap on your face because it wipes out the good bacteria. We hear a lot about the gut microbiome lately, but is the skin microbiome really even a thing?
Mom Wolf, lame-duck governor of 1 Pennsylvania, announced on Twitter that he wanted the commonwealth to legalize pot. His comment was hailed as timely, necessary and courageous by many of his lame-duck followers on social media.
Spring has sprung and life is anew everywhere. Sadly, we also see lives ending. Some of these endings could be prevented if more people were willing to give the gift of life when theirs is over.
The $2 trillion in new spending just enacted by congressional Democrats is a COVID relief bill in name only. It’s plenty of money all right, but so little of it goes to fighting the pandemic it brings to mind an observation attributed to Benjamin Franklin concerning an ox that had been mistaken for a bull.
Those are the questions I found myself asking after I spoke to a panel of gun violence reduction activists this week It was two nights after the murders in Boulder, a week after the rampage in Atlanta, and hours after the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee played out a drama so reliably scripted that it felt like even the players involved knew they were playing a role.
