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Help Team Challenge cross the finish line in Sonoma
The Napa-to-Sonoma half marathon is less than three weeks away, and Team Challenge needs your help! If your donations help all seven people I’m mentoring meet their fundraising goal before 11:00 PM Central Time on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, I will publicly shave my head following the 2010 Napa-to-Sonoma half marathon. Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Crohn's Disease
Tagged CCFA, Crohn's Disease, ibd, Napa2Sonoma, Team Challenge, ulcerative colitis
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Where’s my new body?
Many people with chronic illness seem over time to develop a love/hate relationship with their body. They understand the tiniest nuances of how it reacts to specific medications, to different foods, to various environmental factors. But ultimately if you suffer from an incurable, physically compromising illness, there end up being times when you just want to dump your entire body and start over with a healthy new one. Which of course is impossible.
Or is it? Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Crohn's Disease, Personal, Science Fiction
Tagged brain transplant, Crohn's Disease, humor, Larry Niven, organlegger
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The Best Care in the Air
As a long-time Midwest Airlines customer, it was very very mixed feelings that I watched yesterday’s press conference announcing that the Midwest name is going away (to be assimilated into the Frontier Airlines brand). The reality is that Midwest brand didn’t disappear with yesterday’s press conference ... it’s been gone (with the exception of the chocolate chip cookies) for many years. Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Business, Marketing, Milwaukee
Tagged branding, Frontier Airlines, Midwest Airlines, Midwest Express
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Could a Crohn’s medication also cure Alzheimer’s?
Two independent studies published this week (Journal of Biological Chemistry,1 PLoS One2 ) show that the drug rapamycin (also known as sirolimus) reverses the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. Both studies show that rapamycin reduces the level of amyloid-beta-42 (Aβ … Read the rest of this entry
Posted in Crohn's Disease
Tagged Alzheimer's disease, Crohn's Disease, rapamycin, Sirolimus
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Is psychiatry’s bible still in the dark ages?
New Scientist recently published an article1 describing the conflict that has emerged in American psychiatry over the upcoming revised version of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), frequently referred to as psychiatry’s bible. From my point of … Read the rest of this entry
