Saved By A Bad Taste, The Last 'Radium Girl' Dies At 107

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-the-last-radium-girl-dies-at-107


PS
In the early 1960s I remember Ms. Daphne Attygalla, later Professor in Pathology at the Colombo Medical Faculty, gave us a lecture about radiation damage to cells. She referred about the incidence of lip cancer among workers painting watch dials with radium salts. We were advised not to buy watches with dials glowing in the dark - a fashion those days.

Old as time: What we can learn from past attempts to treat ageing.

Please click on the web-link below:-

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nm/rss/current/~3/Tu33BjbBa6k/nm1214-1362

PS

There was a persistent rumour in Siddha Ayurvedic Medicine, in Sri Lanka, that the powdered form of dried flowers, dried seeds, part of the dried bark, part of a dried stem and part of the dried roots of a Margosa tree which was more than 100 years old, if taken daily in small doses, would increase longevity. Was it another 'Sympathatic magic' concoction? 

Drugs that made headlines in 2014

Please click on the web-link below:-

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nm/rss/current/~3/ZNkEPtm9-xg/nm1214-1370

Response to Ebola

Please click on the web-link below:-

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nm/rss/current/~3/KP_vFQuuZPE/nm.3756

Tee-shirt slogan.

Sign on a Tee-shirt seen at the Majestic City Plaza, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

I DO NOT USE GOOGLE.

MY WIFE IS ALWAYS BY MY SIDE.

The captions are priceless.. and the photography is amazing!

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai.

I hate it when he plays "Mount Everest." 

Menopause sucks. 

FOR GOODNESS' SAKE-------NOOOO 

There's a ringer competing in the Hogtown Olympics. 

I'm not Over-Weight, I'm Under-Height!! 

You do have an odd perspective on things. 

Okay, I caught him, now what do I do with him? 

I hate this game. 

Just act natural and blend in.

Where's my Coffee?

Who the heck is "Sugar Lips?" 

Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.

Email from Daya Jayasinghe

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr.
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

For more quotes please click on the web-link below :-

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Martin_Luther_King_Jr./