If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or email alerts. Thanks for visiting!“Swedish researchers have shown that lots of oral sex with an HIV-infected partner may actually be protective against the virus”; according to a study published in the AIDS journal. What now? Don’t rush into it before [...]
Effects of Legal Prostitution
I didn’t know that prostitution is legal in New Zealand. And it hasn’t resulted in increase in number of sex workers or degradation of moral values, as most opponents claim. In fact, it has led to better awareness of their legal rights, empowerment to refuse services for safety reasons, and some improvement in employment conditions.
Sex Education Done Wrong
Sex education has been making the news lately; not that it never fails to when it pops up in conversations. Barack Obama was at the Planned Parenthood Conference and remarked that sex education was the right thing to do for kindergarteners and added that it should be age-appropriate and meant primarily to help kids guard [...]
Google vs. Sicko
Michael Moore’s latest documentary Sicko released this past weekend and although I have yet to see it, the reviews have been highly appreciative and even go to the extent of calling it his best work yet. Even Fox News praised Moore’s maturity as a filmmaker. That is why I was extremely surprised to see Google [...]
A Green Holi
I guess I missed the bus on mentioning Holi or wishing my readers a happy Holi-day, which incidentally wasn’t where I live (ok! ghissa-pita joke.) It really doesn’t matter because I think most of my readers live on this side of the Atlantic anyway (readers in India, this is the time to prove me wrong.) [...]
The HPV Dilemma
The HPV vaccine issue in Texas is a classic policy example of ends versus means with a little bit of wacky ideological mixed in for good measure. The genital human pappillomavirus (HPV) is known to cause cervical cancer among women and the chances of an average person getting the disease is quite high. “Since it [...]
Does this mirror make me look fat?
We have the slim or thin fad where any woman above 120 lbs is viewed with “couldn’t you have said no to that dessert?” look. The fashion rampway in Paris was the widely publicized culprit but we always believed that we aren’t like those models who anyway wear what ‘ordinary women’ would never wear. But [...]
School health report pisses off parents
I remember the time when we had an annual health checkup in school. A doctor sometimes accompanied by a nurse would come to the school and examine students over a couple of days. We were subjected to preliminary tests including sight and hearing tests. For us as long as we weren’t in the classroom we [...]
It is not bad for me?
Top 10 BAD things that are actually GOOD for you. Only if we knew this before. Sigh! Yet it is not too late.
Morgellans Disease
Now this is one disease [Morgellons] that I hope never creeps up northward toward College Station. Brrr!
Update 1: For those who have come here through Google search, you might want to check out the Wikipedia page on Morgellans disease. Or visit The Morgellan Skin Pathogen Foundation. Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences has a [...]

