Category Archives: Health
On Substack
I have been writing a Substack titled What’s Hot in Fertility? since March 2024. It offers “digestible news and views about reproductive health and science” with excursions into politics and society.If this interests you, please sign up for illustrated posts … Continue reading
Posted in Fertility, Health
Tagged Cancer, Cats and dogs, Embryos, extinction, infertility, IVF, Reproductive health
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What’s Hot in Fertility?
I am writing on Substack in response to the acute politicization of reproductive autonomy, care, and technology in the U.S.A. Subscription is free. These are titles of long-form articles in reverse order of publication:
Androgenic Anxiety and COVID-19
Early this morning, January 1, 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed … Thus begins Children of Men, a dystopian novel by P.D. James (1992). A sudden and unexplained loss of … Continue reading
Posted in Assisted reproductive technology, Fertility, Health, Nature
Tagged ACE-2, Children of Men, COVID-19, ICSI, infertility, sperm count
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Urushiol Pain and Products
A week after nightly creaming my face and arms with hydrocortisone I’m still itching. Each exposure makes the reaction worse next time. A few people, including our gardener, are lucky they don’t react to poison ivy, nor wildlife or pets … Continue reading
Posted in garden, Health, Nature
Tagged Chinese ancestor chair, dermatitis, lacquer, lacquer tree, Poison ivy, Toxicodendron, urushiol
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Phosphatemia—How Green is your Water?
Phosphate is added to municipal drinking water to avoid lead Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Health
Tagged drinking water, eutrophication, Flint Michigan, Phosphate, Sherlock Holmes
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 