A scientific look at a rare malady first documented in 1941, when a Norwegian woman's brain was damaged by shrapnel during a German bombing run. She recovered but began to speak her native Norwegian language in a heavy German accent.

For the very first time, western US sugar beet farmers have planted a new crop - beets that are genetically modified to withstand heavy doses of Monsanto's RoundUp herbicide. Acquaint yourself with what RoundUp contains and can do to animals & humans.

Much hay is being made, in today's news, of tainted pharmaceuticals produced in Puerto Rico. This article is dated February 10th. While the focus of the FDA's pharma regulatory failures has been China, we have problems here at home, too.

You are a woman, and you have a twin brother. You're (obviously) the same age and in the same general health. You ask for health insurance quotes with identical coverage. Guess who's going to have to pay a lot more for that policy?

Enough people have died from eating it when unripe that it is forbidden to be imported to the US. Even those who know enough not to eat it unless fully ripe have been sickened. What is it and where does it grow? Read this piece and find out.

A riveting look at mood disorders and creativity - is there a link? Does creativity spawn temperament, or does temperament spawn creativity?

I think many of us share a similar fear: dying alone, incapacitated, perhaps unable to speak, to remember, to do the simplest thing for ourselves. Read this piece & share your thoughts on prolonging life when real life itself has already departed.

Am informative explanation of the role of the FDA in both prescription and over-the-counter drug dispensation. Learn more about what they do - and don't do.

There's still a lot of goodness in bread that's hardened and stale, and many ways to put it to use. With the dark economic skies, using every last crumb might not only be savvy, but necessary.

Chock-full of vitamins, minerals and other essential elements for health, garden peppers add flavor and color to any dish in which they're used. Read more about them and get some good recipe ideas too.