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Okay, let’s suppose you are considering starting a prescription medication for a problem and there are alternative solutions that do not carry any potential side

I have been a doctor for 44 years and it never ceases to amaze me how different we all are physiologically and psychologically.  Yes, we

Do you believe that decision making at night is the same as during the light of day?  Well, we will get to my take on

I am writing this entry in mid January.  The mornings are dark and cold, there is frost on the cars requiring extra warm up time,

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Anyone out there remember the original “Star Trek” TV show with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy?  By today’s standards, the special effects were really primitive