Alberto Gonzales’ legal troubles may just be beginning. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
“John McKay, one of the U.S. attorneys allegedly fired for improper political reasons, suggested just this in a speech last week before the Federal Bar Association. McKay claimed that Gonzales may be facing criminal prosecution, and soon. Describing an eight-hour meeting […]

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Wildfires rage in Southern Calif. - Yahoo! News
Most everyone has heard about the latest CA wildfires. I’ve been reading about them all weekend, marveling at how some of the press only wrote about the celebrities who live in Malibu, and the many rehabs, rather than the extent of the damage. I didn’t know until this […]

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I love that I’m writing in this blog even though I haven’t technically launched it and currently have about five readers. For some reason, I am having a very difficult time staying awake at work today, even though I got more than enough sleep last night. It’s probably my meds. I keep mucking with my […]

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And I’ll try to move those posts to a health/science news subsection. Since those are currently my favorite news stories. There’s only so much one can read about the Bush administration and Congress… it gets rather depressing after a while. Although I need to find a widget clock that will count down the days, hours […]

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Security concern halted Wis. Ebola study - Boston.com
How the hell could a leading researcher of infectious diseases not know that Ebola research is limited to only bio-safety level 4 labs. For goodness sakes, I know that I’m not an epidemiologist. He must have been out of his mind to be working on Ebola in bio-safety […]

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New cancer drugs could help in autoimmune disease: Scientific American
This isn’t much of a surprise for me, considering the fact that I already take cancer drugs for my Crohn’s. But these are new cancer drugs and they sound very promising.
Using cancer meds to treat Crohn’s is nothing new. I was put on 6-MP (mercaptopurine, which […]

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MedlinePlus: Active Crohn’s in pregnancy ups preterm birth risk
As if I needed more things to worry about when it comes time for me to have a baby.
“The risk of preterm birth was more than three-fold higher for women with moderate-high Crohn’s disease activity during pregnancy.”
That just scares the hell out of me. It certainly won’t […]

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