Leo Sher, M.D. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that psychological problems are associated with cardiovascular disorders (1,2). Studies of war veterans from prior wars have shown that those with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are at substantially increased risk of developing and dying from cardiovascular disease (3,4). A research group from San Francisco examined the association […]

Said Shahtahmasebi, Ph.D. Science is a man-made knowledge-based system derived from ongoing observations which are based on theories about our surroundings. Scientific knowledge acknowledges only the observable and replicable phenomena as truth. Any information about the past and the rest of the universe are merely theories and speculation based on partial observations and historical finds. […]

Steven Lippmann, M.D.     We hear people say, “I need guns to protect myself and family.” Is there a relationship between firearms and American health care being the most expensive in world? Actually, rates for suicide, homicide, domestic violence, and accidental death all increase when there is possession of a gun in the home […]

A hassidic woman in Jerusalem, a member of the sect Toldot Aharon, which is called in Israeli newspapers “an extremist haredi sect,” is suspected of starving and abusing her three-and-a-half-year-old son. This story makes headlines in Israeli newspapers. The police have claimed that she not only starved her child at home over a period of […]