MRSA Revisited: “Out, D-a-m-n-e-d Spot! Out, I Say!”

Four or five months ago when I was doing my routine self-breast check I found a small pea sized lump on my breastbone, nestled in my cleavage.

A quick check with our doctor at the time confirmed what I had first thought — a fatty lump or sebaceous cyst — nothing to be concerned about.

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How I Diagnosed and Treated My Own Lyme Disease

It was the summer of 1996, and I was an intern at Rhone Poulenc, a chemical company in Cranbury, New Jersey. The weather was nice enough that I was regularly wearing short sleeved polo shirts. I was also living in Princeton, New Jersey, in a home that had a lovely backyard that was often visited by deer, no matter what my mother did to try to repel them.  At one point my mother cut my hair in the back yard because she had read somewhere that it was a good deer repellent.

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H1N1 Masquerading as Viral Encephalitis

H1N1 (Swine Flu) was a worldwide pandemic that never happened.  Or did it?  There’s new research suggesting H1N1 infections are being misdiagnosed as Viral Encephalitis.  Or, perhaps even more frightening, H1N1 has morphed into a new strain of Viral Encephalitis.  Or, more terrifying than that — what if H1N1 is being militarized for distribution across the world to kill people for political gain?

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