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Aside from the Yoga Expose: An NIH View, History and Guidelines
It's possible you've heard about the Yoga controversy which involves sexual improprieties. The California Code of Professional Ethics for Yoga Teachers sets forth guidelines and answers to questions that had arisen. The NIH backgrounder on Yoga provides the history of an immensely popular and, presumably, very profitable activity more »
Yosemite’s Alpine Chipmunks Take Genetic Hit From Climate Change
Global warming has forced alpine chipmunks in Yosemite to higher ground, prompting a startling decline in the species’ genetic diversity, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. more »
Chronic Pain Fuels Boom in Opioids
Underlying fallacies: That the use of narcotic painkillers to treat non-cancer pain lasting many months or years is supported by rigorous science. "This epidemic has been caused by a brilliant marketing campaign that dramatically changed the way physicians treat pain."
Prescriptions for narcotic painkillers soared so much over the last decade that by 2010 enough were being dispensed to medicate ever… more »
Rep. Maloney's opening statement at Oversight Hearing on 'Separation of Church and State': Where are the women?
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, delivered the following opening remarks at today's hearing titled *'Separation of Church and State' on the Obama Administration's recent contraception decision, where not a single woman was allowed at the witness table by the Committee's majority. more »
