We all avoid different things. I avoid polyester clothing. They avoid talking about death. (Lisa Daxer)
Projects on SETI projects look for extraterrestrial signals from space. Work with dolphins, elephants, even chickens seeks to see if these
animals are intelligent communicators. In all this, we take for granted that we understand how we humans, as social creatures, think and react. But our understanding of communications and social interaction relies on some unusual assumptions.
When we last spoke about sex, we discussed the neurotransmitters involved in pleasure and attraction, namely dopamine and oxytocin. Now let's look a little deeper into the action of those neurotransmitters and how we can manipulate their action- to extend the neurological orgasm for as long as possible.
Metastatic melanoma is a deadly diagnosis - you are, to be frank, screwed. Any glimmer of hope, however murky, is thus latched onto fervently. Unfortunately, cancer treatments aren't a picnic, many providing only a little extra time on earth and awful side effects.
In diseases like metastatic melanoma, where the prognosis is dismal, it's easy to hype any drug that comes along. Words like "breakthrough" are tossed about the news media, which dilutes the power of the word when an actual advancement comes along.1 A new drug in clinical trials might just fit the bill, though, so I may take the word off the shelf and use it, albeit cautiously.
Metastatic melanoma - the not-so-good, bad and ugly
