Dolphins Intelligent, Self-Aware: “Well Above Chimps and Apes” -Researchers Cite Ethics Issues Also – Japanese Dolphin Slaughter Comes to Light (below) By Leo Kretzner, San Diego, CA. February 22, 2010 Just what do we think makes us so smart?? Well, lots of things. We have big, convoluted brains with many specialized nerve cell […]
Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech
Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech –Also: Good News for Bad Singers (below) By Leo Kretzner, San Diego, CA. February 21, 2010. Taking systematic advantage of an ability known about for a hundred years, the speechless are learning to sing their words – and finding they come far more easily that way. This was […]
Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech
Stroke Patients Sing Their Way Back to Speech –Also: Good News for Bad Singers (below) By Leo Kretzner, San Diego, CA. February 21, 2010. Taking systematic advantage of an ability known about for a hundred years, the speechless are learning to sing their words – and finding they come far more easily that way. This was […]
Dolphins Plagued by Similar Diseases As Humans
Dolphins Plagued by Similar Diseases as Humans By Leo Kretzner, 2/18/10, San Diego, CA “Flipper” – that most famous of marine mammals – would quite possibly be one sick dolphin these days. That was a conclusion drawn from presentations by four scientists from separate specialties studying dolphins in their native environment, along coasts and in […]
Possible Link Between Sugary Soft Drinks and Pancreatic Cancer
Possible Link Between Sugary Soft Drinks and Pancreatic Cancer By Leo Kretzner, 2/7/2010 Cancer of the pancreas, the small organ producing insulin, is relatively rare but packs a deadly wallop: The five-year survival rate is only 5% and the disease progresses quickly in most individuals, primarily because it lacks symptoms until it is an advanced […]
Surprising Diet Study Result: Red meat not the bad guy this time
Surprising Diet Study Result: Red meat not the bad guy this time By Leo Kretzner, 1/30/2010 Many a medical study is done on diet and cancer. Some search for eating patterns among groups of people who do and don’t get cancer. Or they may determine if dietary changes made within the study have measurable positive […]