Clinton Colmenares wrote this …
Is it Nobel time again? Already? We haven’t stopped celebrating last year’s announcement, when our own Oliver Smithies was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
This year’s prize, announced yesterday, acknowledges the scientists who discovered HIV and the fact that a virus causes cervical cancer. Monumental occurrences [...]
October 7, 2008
The Nobel prize went to …
October 7, 2008
Heartburn heats up in summer
Tom Hughes wrote this …
Most of us have heartburn at one time or another. This week a story in the Los Angeles Times reported that up to 60 percent of Americans experience “acid reflux” – which is a fancier, more medicalized term for heartburn.
The LA Times story quoted UNC’s Dr. Nicholas Shaheen who is one [...]
