I鈥檓 sure you have been told or have even been the one to tell someone to 鈥渃lose the door鈥� because they were 鈥渓etting the cold in鈥�. While efforts to keep the house warm are noble, the advice is not...
You have probably heard that drinking milk and eating chocolate causes acne or, at the very least, that they make it worse. Diet is often blamed for a teenager鈥檚 pimply skin, but is there good...
You are likely aware of the large number of drugs that have been developed from chemicals found in plants, including aspirin from willow bark, atropine from deadly nightshade, and both morphine and...
I was queried via email 鈥渋f there are chemicals in acrylic fingernails.鈥� I imagine the question was really about the safety of the ingredients because for many the term chemical has become...
This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.
It is a lifesaver, stocked in every emergency room! N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is amazingly effective as an antidote to acetaminophen poisoning.
The farmer had purchased some potassium permanganate. Exactly why he needed it isn鈥檛 clear but using it as a disinfectant to clean the udders and teats of cows before and after milking is a...
"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."聽 With these words Victor Frankenstein began his account of the...
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