Archive for December, 2007

  • FDA Failing in Resources, Science, Technology

    FDA Failing in Resources, Science, Technology

    If you want a good scare this morning, go read yesterday’s FDA Science Board report, FDA Science and Mission at Risk in this pdf. In it, the board outlines how the agency that oversees the safety of this entire country’s food and drug supply doesn’t have the money and therefore the kind of adequately trained [...]

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  • Making My Fireplace Asthma-Friendly

    Making My Fireplace Asthma-Friendly

    Oh, we’re not done with the fireplace/Christmas/Asthma Girl question just yet. If I’m going to recreate my internal debate about woodburning fireplaces here where you can read it, I guess I’d better also include information about lessening the particle pollution from your wood fire (and mine), should you find yourself in the same position. Here’s [...]

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  • On Fireplaces, Christmas, and Asthma

    On Fireplaces, Christmas, and Asthma

    I’m just not sure what to do with this. This is the third fireplace I’ve owned but the only one I’ve ever lit a fire in, and I didn’t decide to start using it until last February. I’m still wrestling with this decision. I have angst. Because of Asthma Girl, of course. I know the [...]

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