Kathlyn Stone
Kathlyn Stone is a health and science journalist based in St. Paul, Minn. She is the editor and publisher of Flesh & Stone.
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Less than 3 years after airport scanner buying spree, TSA removes them
It seems like only yesterday that the U.S. government rushed headlong into an airport scanner spending spree. It was 2010. Airport scammers or scanners? Now we ...
Companies Rushed Special Dividend Payments Before Tax Increase
With the fiscal cliff here and higher taxes looming, many corporations, including pharmaceutical companies, are issuing dividend checks to investors early in order ...
What's new in male contraception research?
An organization called the International Male Contraception Coalition makes a strong case for male contraceptives on its website. Some of the obvious reasons ...
American Psychiatric Association Approves DSM-5
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) board of trustees met Saturday to vote on a controversial new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical ...
Iceland shows leadership again with Wikileaks decision
Is Iceland the only country that is not a corporatacracy? When the global financial crisis hit in 2008, Iceland faced what Greece, Italy, Spain and ...
Injured photographer uses YouTube to request evacuation from Syria
Paul Conway, a photographer for the Sunday Times who was injured in a rocket attack in the Baba Amr district of Homs, Syria, on Feb. ...
JSTOR drops charges against Swartz; US government will pursue
In July, Aaron Swartz, an internet freedom activist and former Harvard Ethics fellow, was arrested and charged with data theft for downloading millions of academic ...
Reaction to Osama bin Laden's death runs deeper than celebration videos
Video of Americans' first reaction to the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 1, depict young men and ...
Researchers continue to demonstrate that fish "feel" pain
When a fish is hooked and it fights being hauled into your boat, it’s not just playing with you. It’s more likely reacting to pain ...
Japan awaits word on possible nuclear reactor leak
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has issued an emergency decree regarding the possibility of leaking radiation from the damaged Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCo) multi-reactor ...
Egypt’s interim government accepts “Desert Development Corridor” plan
Egypt’s interim government has adopted a plan for developing a 1,200 kilometer stretch of desert along the Nile River Valley and delta developed by Boston ...
Wiley launches new open access journal: Brain and Behavior
Wiley & Sons will begin publishing Brain and Behavior, an open access journal, this spring. Brain and Behavior is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal, providing ...
5 reasons Mubarak can’t silence Egyptian democracy demonstrations
1. An army captain joins the protesters in Cairo on Saturday, Jan. 29: Robert Fisk: Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship 2. YouTube: “We will not be silenced. ...IAVA calls SOTU statements on VA electronic medical records system ‘misleading’
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) says a statement made by President Obama during his second State of the Union address on January 25 ...
Oxfam Report: Pakistan flooding crisis could worsen
Malnutrition and homelessness are a continuing threat to victims of the July 2010 floods that stuck Pakistan. The flooding covered one-fifth of the country and ...
Happy New Year!
Sending our best wishes for the coming year. Thank you for stopping by Flesh & Stone to read and comment. Glad to have you and hope ...
Federal Protection of Wilderness Study Areas Reinstated
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar today restored a policy allowing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which he oversees, to recommend undeveloped lands for federal protection ...
Fed Judge: Mandatory Health Insurance Unconstitutional
U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson ruled Monday that a central requirement in the health care reform law is unconstitutional. Hudson ruled that requiring people to ...
Call for global ban on asbestos intensifies
There should be a total ban on asbestos across the globe in favor of safer synthetic alternatives, according to scientists at the Collegium Ramazzini, an ...Patient groups ask TSA to improve screening of travelers with medical devices
Better training of airport screening officers, clear policies on “pat-downs” and more respect for travelers with medical devices are needed, according to a coalition of ... Blog Communities
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