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cartoon: natalie dee By Research Nancy This post is by blog contributor "Research Nancy," with very minimal editorial inte...

By Crabby McSlacker So as I was saying yesterday, I seem to have caught some sort of bug. And I'm being a big ol' baby about it....

Cartoon by Al Bar Anyone else out there have a slight tendency toward hypochondria? No, not the sort where your life is one long parade of o...

photo: ChrisBravoTown So Swine Flu has been in the news a bit lately, have you noticed? There are some ominous signs out there that this new...

Cartoon by Al Bar Anyone else out there have a slight tendency toward hypochondria? No, not the sort where your life is one long parade of o...

[ By Crabby ] Don't Leave Home Without It. A few days ago, we were talking about feeling uncool while exercising . In the comments sect...

So our last Random Friday Roundup discussed (really briefly) a recent study on weight and mortality. You remember--it's the one that l...

It's that time of the week again, when Crabby abandons all attempts at organizational themes or helpful transitions and just rounds up a...

A couple of weeks ago, there was a headline that seemed to give some encouraging news about earlier detection of Ovarian Cancer. Crabby was...

Didn't you think it was a joke? The "five second rule" is something everyone laughs about when food drops to the floor. No o...

Many of us have done it: we notice a numb fingertip, perhaps, or a sudden weird pain where we're not used to having one. So just to re...

Coffee is one of those right-of-passage beverages, like beer or Cabernet Sauvignon, that one has to work a bit to fall in love with. Unlike...

Apologies for hapazardly grouping a bunch of breast cancer-related items together and calling it a post. Problem is, breast cancer is a Ser...

You can read the full article here , but then you'd have to see the picture. (Which is actually fascinating, and just as icky as you mig...

Crabby can't say anything funny about Alzheimer's, because it's a terrible disease. However she is happy whenever hard-working ...