Adolescence is a time of experimentation, and some adolescents are going to experiment with drugs, particularly in their middle or late teens. All parents worry about the drug culture that their child might become involved in, but my experience is that teenagers who have had epilepsy throughout their childhood are probably less likely than many [...]
When a heart attack comes, you feel as though a lightning bolt had struck the ground beside you. Sharp pain crashes through your chest. It can also sizzle up your arm, your back, your neck. And the pain doesn’t let up. Over 1.5 million Americans will suffer a heart attack each year. And 550,000 of [...]
There is a crucial unrecognized problem with genetic causation of harmful diseases, whether they be cancers or other chronic diseases. How do the harmful genes maintain their representation over time? The harm caused by a gene reduces its representation in the next generation in proportion to the negative effects of the gene on the survival [...]