Charlie and I found ourselves in the pool every day last week and he got in two rounds of bowling.
In today’s USNews and World Report, Nancy Shute reviews a number of recent studies on genetics, including the study published this week in Science. She also discusses why a clinical trial of chelation could provide parents with the “good information they desperately need in making choices about treatments.”

More Unfriendly Skies
4 children, 2 disabled, Southwest Airlines.
What’s Medically Necessary?
Parents, insurers, schools, who pays?
Chelation Study Put on Hold
Citing safety concern, the NIMH puts the study on hold.
Hans Reiser and the Asperger’s …read more

I’ve been following the trial of Hans Reiser, the software engineer who developed code for the Linux operating system and who, in April, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2006 disappearance of his ex-wife, Nina Reiser. The case has been troubling to me on a few levels: They lived in the Oakland Hills — a place I’m familiar with — and where, six days after she disappeared, Nina Reiser’s minivan was found containing her purse and $144 in rotting groceries. Yesterday, Hans Reiser led police to what he said was the body of Nina Reiser, buried in a park …read more