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Kathlyn Stone is a Minnesota-based writer covering science and medicine, health care and related policies.�She publishes www.fleshandstone.net, a health and science news site.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 4, 2009 Novelist Accurately Portrays Semantic Dementia Decades Before Neurologists
SD patients seen at the Memory and Aging Center tried to preserve their vocabulary by making extensive word lists. A patient fills page after page of specific words followed by parenthetical descriptions of the category into which the words belong, such as "cucumber (food)" and "Cincinnati (city)" In the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Colombian author and Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a whole town
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 18, 2007 Message to pro-war extremists: Our troops are not your dupes
Gray and Mora co-authored "The War as We Saw It," an opinion piece signed by five other soldiers that ran in the NYT August 19. They died in Iraq less then a month later.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Author Turns Pain Into Healing Hope For Cancer Patients
Jeff McCallum's ability to describe the pain of cancer – both physical and emotional -- was called a "dark gift" by one caregiver. His ability to do so may have played a large part in his healing.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 2, 2007 Gov. Pawlenty can't dodge ownership in bridge collapse
Pawlenty twice vetoed a bi-partisan bill to increase the gas tax to pay for the state's transportation infrastructure needs and took no steps to heed numerous warnings. Failure.
SHARE Tuesday, August 1, 2006 Bioterrorism - An Update on Preparedness
A July 31 Guardian article, "US begins building treaty-breaching germ war defence centre", describes a new germ warfare laboratory that is under construction near Washington. This related article explores America's bioweapons initiatives, what one medical specialty is doing to prepare for bioterrorism threats, and words of caution from physician and scientific organizations.
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, June 23, 2008 U.S. churches join UN call to end torture
"It is crucial for people of faith to remind the President that the United Methodist Book of Discipline clearly states that "the mistreatment or torture of persons by governments for any purpose violates Christian teaching and must be condemned and/or opposed by Christians and churches wherever and whenever it occurs," according to a statement from the United Methodist Church.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, September 1, 2008 National Guard called in to confront protesters in St. Paul
A rally in St. Paul that began peacefully this morning to protest government policies regarding the war and economy has turn a corner and now includes vandalism against public property. The National Guard has been called in.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, September 5, 2008 Day 5 of the RNC
The RNC has been tough on journalists.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 23, 2007 What are you doing September 11, 2007?
While impatiently we wait -- for future clean election cycles to pad the Congress and White House with enough "progressives" to take our government and media away from corporations -- we could easily force change in a matter of months.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 11, 2007 Iraqi oil workers end latest strike, oil minister reprimanded
Iraqi oil union members called off their strike in Basra today, easing concerns that the strike would end through military intervention. Support from international unions may have played a role.