
Migraine, more than a headache: a neurodisease
Migraine is a neurodisease.
Mary Quirk
Feb 1
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Double nods
Thick ice covered the gravel path so I trudge in the frozen swamp amidst the trampled grass reeds pushing aside the suckered branches...
Mary Quirk
Jan 1
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First observers: the origin of bias in scientific reporting
Scientists report their findings with inherent bias. It can be explicitly stated or implicit. In college, I first encountered this...
Mary Quirk
Dec 1, 2024
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Misnomers in medicine
Current U.S. health care insurance policies make a distinction in their coverage of diseases that affect the body and mind. A disease is...
Mary Quirk
Nov 1, 2024
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Solitude in childhood
The landscape of my childhood was varied and expansive, bounded by the Mississippi River to the east and north and as far as I could ride...
Mary Quirk
Oct 1, 2024
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Book review: The Radium Girls
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore is an unrelenting and horrifying story of industrial...
Mary Quirk
Sep 1, 2024
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What was your favorite childhood tree? Mine was a lilac bush
I recently finished a wonderful memoir by scientist Hope Jahren. One of her many wise observations in Lab Girl is that everyone has a...
Mary Quirk
Aug 1, 2024
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We are what we eat
Seeing a two-year-old in our neighborhood singing about honey and hearing from his parents that he loved all things honey brought back a...
Mary Quirk
Jul 1, 2024
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