On May 25, U.S. businessman Charles Hubbs made the short trek to Hong Kong from his office just outside Guangzhou, a city in Guangdong province in southeastern China that is known for good reason as the manufacturing workshop of the world.
Tag Archives: health
Fetal Origins: How the First Nine Months Shape Your Life
What makes us the way we are? Why are some people predisposed to be anxious, overweight or asthmatic?
Inside the New Medical Privacy Law
Who hasn’t experienced that sinking feeling during a visit to the pharmacy , or the face-reddening trauma of a teenage trip to the dermatologist ? If a new law is successful, those excruciating moments are a thing of the past
In Defense of Myhrvold: Give ‘Modernist Cuisine’ a Break
It’s only natural, I suppose, for a $625 five-volume, epochal publishing event like Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine to polarize the food world. After all, this is the book the whole culinary world has been waiting for: “the cookbook to end all cookbooks,” as David Chang called it.
Big Pharma Faces a Crackdown in Europe
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the few sectors around that appears to be weathering these difficult times with relative ease.
Cesarean Deliveries Rise Alongside Rate of Induced Labor
The rise in cesarean-section deliveries in recent years has been characterized by some as a key indication of the overmedicalization of childbirth.
Post-HMO Health Care: Are Accountable Care Organizations the Answer?
“Remember the 1990s” retrospective lists always include Nirvana, Monica Lewinsky and Wayne’s World, but leave out another major product that defined American life in the ’90s: the health maintenance organization, or HMO — that nefarious health-insurance plan that seemed expressly designed to prevent you from seeing the doctor of your choice or receiving the treatments recommended by doctors, all under the guise of lowering costs and “improving” medical care.
Questions About Marijuana: Is Pot Good For You?
I never smoked pot in junior high because I was convinced it would shrivel my incipient manhood. This was the 1980s, and those stark this-is-your-brain-on-drugs ads already had me vaguely worried about memory loss and psychosis
America’s Obesity Crisis:Are You Responsible for Your Own Weight?
PRO Absolutely.
School Head-Lice Policies Must Be Relaxed, Say Doctors
They are miniscule, measuring at most 2 mm to 3 mm long, yet few things induce more panic or fear among parents than head lice. But while an infestation of head lice on a child can be uncomfortable, the critters do not pose enough of a contagious hazard to justify the strict policies that many schools use to keep infected children out of class, according to a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics