James Monteith

Sleep is integral to life. It is present in all sorts of life on earth, from humans to rabbits, sharks to gerbils. Humans generally spend about one-third of our lives asleep. There are two main types of sleep. Sleep begins with the first stage, non…

Grief, we are told, has a rigid five stages. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, the pioneering psychiatrist, proposed this model of grief in her famous treatise On Death and Dying in 1969. The stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. But…

Obamacare, despite claims from its critics that it is a federal-government annexation of the American health care system, is evolutionary, not revolutionary. It maintains and expands the American system of Medicaid by expanding its current system of…

Breast cancer kills more women every year than any other form of cancer. Despite this, survival rates are high. In England, scientists found that eight out 10 women diagnosed with breast cancer would survive for at least for five years. If caught at…

Humanity's evolution, relatively speaking, has been remarkably quick. Homo sapiens sapiens, the scientific name for modern humans, evolved 200,000 years ago, though the first of our evolutionary ancestors can be traced to 6 million years ago. The…

Health care reform in the United States has had a long and contentious history. If I were to say that health care reform in the United States has caused some political conflict, it would be like stating that the Sun is a bit bigger than the Earth —…

Ever since Frederic Miescher first isolated DNA in 1869, scientists have been steadily making greater progress into unlocking the secrets of our genetic code one nucleic acid at a time. With increased progress comes incredible potential for both…