Maureen Connor

A couple of years ago muscle relaxant medications have made a big stir in the press because of several deaths associated with cases of such drugs being abused. This, of course lead to several profile federal agencies to take a closer look at such drugs. One of the first reported cases dates back to 1996-1996 [...]

There’s an idiom and it’s always difficult to remember which way round it’s supposed to go. Is it, “life imitates art”? The reason for this musing is a gossip story that surfaced out of a book by Jonathan Alter called “The Promise: President Obama, Year One”. It seems that when President Nicholas Sarkozy was visiting [...]

There is reasonable evidence of neurological problems in Celiac disease (CD) even those well treated on a gluten-free diet should undergo periodic neurological screening. Peripheral neuropathy is found in almost half of people with CD. Previously, neurological complications in Celiac disease were reported to be as high as 36% or more than a third. Some [...]