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It was with bated breath (and unruly paparazzi) that we awaited the arrival of the worlds’ most famous orange, plastic, pediatric brain-tumor-awareness-advocating lobster. That’s right, we’re talking about none other than the uber-cool Zippy The Lobster! And he’s here at Doc Gurley headquarters (fanfare blares, confetti falls, fans swoon)! Zippy arrived in his entourage-hat with [...]

Here’s the kind of news/study that makes the extensive staff located at Doc Gurley Headquarters (okay, me) smile. Every once in a while, something that people have known for a long time (read: usually women) gets “discovered” and someone publishes a “study” about it, complete with widespread media coverage and a big citation-credit for their [...]

Our wonderful reader, Helen Howes, has won the first Ask The Doc free question! Let’s turn the mic over to you, Helen -
“Why are diabetics all diagnosed with stupidity as a side-condition of the disease? My medics (all pretty good) seem to think that in spite of a usefully large IQ, a very good record [...]

One of the more perverse joys of writing a blog is to randomly check the spam filter, looking for any lovely reader comments that may have gotten accidentally caught in the gunk. Kind of like cleaning out a verbal shower drain. What is surprising (to me) is the real-time evolution of healthcare spam, and how [...]

The great divide between veggie/tofu-eating-women, and haunch-of-beef-eating-men cliches just got wider. Why? In the news is a study claiming that men can get low sperm counts from soy products (including tofu) - due to isoflavones. While this is not a great study, nor a large number of people, the issue has more credence than vegetarians [...]

With the weather luring us outside, here’s another prod to succumb to temptation and get moving: a report showing that certain kind of body fat are worse than others - specifically waist measurement and your risk of cancer. Abdominal girth and heart disease risk have been linked in many, many studies - but this is [...]