No, we’re not making odds for a horse race or betting at a table in Las Vegas! Readers of my column in P&T might recall my discussions of our nation’s performance in health care in previous issues. I’ve noted, with disappointment, that our health care system does not perform as well as those in other nations we like to compare ourselves with. A report from the Commonwealth Fund that caught my a...

This article explores poet Mark Strand’s facet as an art critic and, more specifically, the way in which pictorial universe of American painter Edward Hopper influenced his own poetry, both thematically and stylistically. Reading Hopper’s well-known oil on canvas House by Railroad (1925) a New York Times entitled “Crossing Tracks to World,” published 17 October 1971, Strand dwells “Hopper’s fas...

Dedicated to the soul of my father Acknowledgments " I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13) " I always say that I am lucky. I am lucky because I always get wonderful and kind people surrounding me. I am lucky to have Peter Apers as my promoter. He supported my research directions and gave me freedom and independence. His words always gave me confidence and ins...

Balneotherapy or Spa therapy is used in neurological, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, dermatological and gynecological diseases, in infertility as well as in metabolic disturbances. Beneficial effects of balneotherapy at the metabolic level is not fully understood. Authors have documented enhancement of antioxidants concentrations (coenzyme Q10- CoQ(10-OX) and alpha-tocopherol) of women with g...