Monday, December 01, 2025

December 1: World AIDS Day is here

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  When it comes to marketing the commemoration of one of the most critical and dangerous diseases humanity has seen, the World AIDS Day, obs...
Monday, June 10, 2024

The wsj starts off with a good review on Thalidomide, but later cannot help itself...

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  Any sensible person who reads the wsj knows the publication is a double-edged sword at best. You mostly read it for the financial news and...
Sunday, April 07, 2024

World Health Day is here (April 07, 2024)

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  Every year, April 07 is World Health Day. The goal is to remind ourselves that human health is absolute to our species, and each year, one...
Sunday, August 20, 2023

On World Mosquito Day (August 20, 2023)

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  It might seem a bit crazy at first scan, to have a World Mosquito Day. That, in and of itself, is not surprising, given that most people a...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

April 24: World Lab Animal Day

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  April 24, annually is observed as World Day for Laboratory Animals . I am writing this post commemorating this.  Laboratory animals do not...
Thursday, April 07, 2022

April 7th is World Health Day

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  Health. I wonder why that would be an important topic just about now? Well, I don't know if it is too soon for us to be laughing about...
Saturday, April 02, 2022

Today (April 2nd) is World Autism Day!

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I know it has been a while since I posted on this blog, but World Autism Day is too important to pass up, so here I am.  World Autism Day sh...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Update: Newsom does say buck stops with him, as he points fingers outward...

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  This is a quick update to the post I wrote from this morning, regarding the resignation of Angell, California's Public Health Director...

During Pandemics, we need honesty, not resignations

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  California, my state of never-ending hubris, and chutzpah, is in the midst of a crisis. As with everything else, it is being handled rathe...
Sunday, August 02, 2020

India's uncontrolled and corrupt medical supply chain comes to bite back just in time for a pandemic

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There is a strong yearning among many Indians, myself included, for our nation to reach the upper echelons, to considered as having arrived,...
Friday, July 24, 2020

International Self-Care Day and what we should do amidst the pandemic

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The International Self-Care Day is commemorated on July 24th, annually. Why? Well, if you are thinking about self-(health)care, you wan...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

Observing World Health Day (April 7) in a momentous year

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The World Health Organization has been promoting World Health Day, annually on April 7. In years past, one might have struggled to pick fro...
Friday, March 06, 2020

Simple Innovations: What Comes After Coronavirus - Virtual Interactions

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If you, like me are not a participant of the great toilet paper panic of 2020 (seriously, if you get sick, WHAT are you going to do with TP...
Friday, January 31, 2020

February is Heart Month

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In the US, capitalizing on the spirit of Valentine's Day, February is commemorated as Heart Health Month. So, get moving, get reading...