As the former director of Los Angles' Immunization Program and a frequent consultant to the WHO on vaccine preventable diseases, I think that the questions raised in David Kirby's posts and the answers given in Dr. Jay Gordon's need another perspective. Clearly, safety issues surrounding vaccines need...

Sherry Lansing’s May 12 post "Rewired, Not Retired" calls upon America’s schools to better utilize the talents and experiences of knowledgeable and motivated recent retirees -- many of whom would be excellent teachers. As a former teacher who is now working to bring such high quality people into the...

‘Breathing with Awareness,' as discussed in Scott Hobbs’ post, promotes health benefits as simple as relaxation and as profound as changes to the very structure of the brain. It is both a psychological and a biological intervention used to treat a number of clinical disorders (including eating disorders...

Internet phone calling sounds kind of geeky. I admit that. Yet, when I donned my headset, called up my Internet phone software and made a couple of calls from my Oregon home to Florida yesterday, my Mom said that was the clearest I sounded in quite some time.

Despite Internet...