Related Articles at SunStar Online and Newspaper Jul-Dec 2009

Dec 30 Wisdom Does Matter in Old Age (posted 12/29/09)
Dec 23 Patience and Folly (posted 12/22/09) [used in---Philippine News Balita (newslink)]
Dec 16 Promiscuous Misery (posted 12/15/09)
Dec 9 Cure Beneath the Seas (posted 12/8/09)
Dec 2 Blinded By Passion (posted 12/1/09)
Nov 25 A Thirst for Sleep (posted 11/24/09)
Nov 18 Teaching Nutrition Effectively (posted 11/17/09)
Nov 11 In a Swoosh of Fate (posted 11/10/09)
Nov 4 Can Innocence Be Bliss? (ePaper only)
Oct 28 Knowing Without Inference
Oct 21 A Facet of Suicide (posted 10/20/09)
Oct 14 Managing Your Hypertension (posted 10/13/09)
Oct 7 A Medical View of Homosexuality (posted 10/6/09)
Sep 30 Survivors of Genetic Mess (posted 9/29/09)
Sep 23 Sweet, Sweet Breath (posted 9/22/09)
Sep 9 A Touch of Soluble Fibers [used in---Toilet Junkie; IBS Help and Support Group]
Sep 2 The Bomb Ticking at Home
Aug 26 In the Eyes of Children
Aug 19 Downside of online leisures
Aug 12 Death on Misprint [used in--Kabalita (newslink)]
Aug 5 Born to be Thin
Jul 29 A Novel Swine Flu
Jul 22 Taking Off the Peer Pressure
Jul 15 Getting Irresistible
Jul 1 Deadly Medicine

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Deadly X-Gene Mutants

A RECENT study on macrophages (i.e. defensive cells in our body that engulf threatening substances inside our body) introduced me to a lethal, genetic disease that targets the male population. This disease is called Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), named after the French neurologist Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne, who described it in 1861. While it has an incidence of one in 3,500 newborn males, health experts consider this as the most common lethal disease of childhood around the world. Mutation in the male (X) chromosome [dystrophin gene, locus Xp21] causes a rapid degeneration of the muscles, leading into an eventual loss of walking ability and then death. While females do not exhibit symptoms, they can be carriers of these defective genes, especially if the father had this condition or the mother is also a carrier. Symptoms usually appear before age five; at times visible in early infancy. These symptoms involve... ( Read more .) This article appears in Sun-Star Ce...

Joy, Temperance and Repose

“I RECKON being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better,” wrote Samuel Butler in The Way of All Flesh (1903). The term “antioxidant” was originally used in the 18th century to refer to a chemical that prevents the consumption of oxygen in laboratory experiments. However, in the late 19th and early 20th century, extensive study exploded... ( Read more ) This article appeared in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 02 June 2010.

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