Dr Wade Grindle MD

Although the BMI or Body Mass Index, correlates with obesity, not all people with high body mass are fat. Indeed, some of these muscular individuals are extremely healthy. For more of the New York Times article click here .

Researchers at The Salk Institute in La Jolla and elsewhere first demonstrated that physical exercise increases neurogenesis over ten years ago. The specific cellular mechanisms are now being teased out – see here.

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Dr John Mascola and colleagues at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have isolated two antibodies that neutralized more than 90% of all strains of the HIV virus. This extraordinary breakthrough may lead ultimately to an actual preventative vaccine against the leading infectious cause of death worldwide. In the meantime, the antibodies [...]

Our soldiers serving in the military risk life and limb for our country every day. In his stirring talk at TEDMED San Diego, Dean Kamen tells about some of the amazing people who inspired him to design a new prosthetic arm:

In her Wellness column today in the New York Times, Tara Parker-Pope discusses the state of computerized psychological screening tests for ADD. She also mentions Newport Beach’s Dr Daniel Amen, widely considered a leading authority in the field. For the full article please click here.

The visual analog scale (VAS) has been used historically as a quick way to assess pain on a 1 – 10 scale. I commented today in my Medical Humor blog on a more entertaining version that was recently posted by Micah Stubblefield here.

Jamie Oliver on the urgency of our obesity crisis, and his solution for it in this TED video filmed Feb 2010