Tag Archives: medicine

Psychoactive Amazonian medicine gaining popularity, may treat health disorders

02/18/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
In the great Amazon rainforest, native people have long used a large array of psychoactive medicinal agents, from frog secretions to potent snuffs, to various items that can be smoked, applied to skin, or otherwise ingested. ; Among these agents,…

Why pregnant women should avoid environmental toxins

07/01/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Pregnant women are advised to do – and not do – many things over the course of nine months. Whether from a physician, friend, or perfect stranger, there is no shortage of opinions on eating fish, taking supplements, drinking caffeine,…

Celebrating the restoration of the emergency center at my hospital — NYU Langone Medical Center

04/29/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Ken Langone, chairman of the Board of Trustees at the NYU Langone Medical Center, the New York City hospital center named after him, was being treated for pneumonia on the 11th floor of the facility when Superstorm Sandy flooded the…

Reservations: the new jujitsu of the restaurant industry

05/14/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
The line outside San Francisco’s hottest new restaurant starts forming at about 4:00 pm on a Friday night. ; A dozen or so people line up for about 10 walk-in seats at State Bird Provisions –which just nabbed the James…

Top 5 Germiest Surfaces

09/02/2010 Published on Foxnews.com
(diego cervo) Germaphobes beware! The world around us is teeming with microbial life. From the dead-set obvious public toilet seat to the obscure bacteria-laden snowflake, the world is a reservoir of the microscopic, and we are merely passengers. To put…