A common medical term is sequela. You pronounce it like this: seh-QWEL-uh. And it means the after-effects of a disease. In other words, a...

Let us turn back the clock several million years. We humans survived in small groups of families and clans. We sat around campfires, we...

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A classic laboratory experiment involving rodents goes something like this. These smart little caged rats quickly figure out if they...

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Our world plummeted down the rabbit hole of chaos in March 2020 when the nightmare of COVID disintegrated our daily lives. With the...

A brisk horizontal wind swept through our community in September. Not quite a tornado, but the winds toppled large trees, pulled down...

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We're playing the same risky game with a deadly pandemic. We know what works. We know how to institute a game-winning strategy, but in...

Troubling times. With COVID we have taken many steps forward toward eradicating this plague, yet now we are taking steps backward as...

We have become too complacent about the risks from COVID. The results can be disastrous. Let's look at some prudent guidelines.

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Our nightmare of death and misery is over a year old now. We live with spikes and plateaus, shots and deniers, masks and distancing,...

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A year ago. We had yet to ponder the implications of a deadly virus attacking the world. We had no clue what lay ahead for us. A year...

With widespread vaccine protection on the horizon, Dr. Ed warns about mutant strains among us and just how infectious such variants can...