Category Archives: Other

Thanks given for Wild Turkey

Posted on November 27, 2014 by Roger Gosden

Christmas has the sound of carols while July Fourth the sight of fireworks, but only one American holiday has an aroma. A breeze of savory turkey from the kitchen is the essence of Thanksgiving. How it came to be associated … Continue reading →

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My Big Fat Neanderthal Family Wedding

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Roger Gosden

Was there a population that never experienced discrimination? Prejudice has an ancient pedigree, perhaps wired into the human psyche. I was musing whether Neanderthal people bore it first and endured the stigma longest. Thirty thousand years after they mysteriously disappeared, … Continue reading →

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Ghost Story from West Virginia

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Roger Gosden

MY NIGHT AT JOHN NORTH HOUSE Aha! So that’s the house I heard rumors about. Surely my family can’t believe it’s haunted? After parking on a steep rise above the town center I stared at the rambling brick mansion with … Continue reading →

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Room for a Womb – a transplant story

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Roger Gosden

It seems particularly fitting to congratulate a Swedish colleague who announced the world’s first successful uterine transplant the same week that the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine is announced from Stockholm. Not that the transplant will earn him the … Continue reading →

Posted in Biomedical, Other | Tagged In Vitro Fertilization, Mats Brannstrom, medical ethics, Mullerian agenesis, ovarian transplant, Sherman Silber, surrogacy, uterine transplant | Comments Off

A Grain of Experience

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Roger Gosden

After another dietary study giving refined carbohydrates a bad name and confirming that saturated fat is good for us, a post in praise of bread seems poor timing. I was already coming round to thinking the official doctrine over the … Continue reading →