Bad Science

I was a little disappointed to note that two consecutive issues of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource featured articles addressing that most ladylike of afflictions: headache. Would Julie Abbott, M.D., M.P.H., and the rest of the kittenish coquettes on the editorial board really have us believe that there are no other more pressing medical issues facing women? Have they forgotten about uterus malaria? Boob flu? What about that big tube that connects a woman's face to her butt (internally)? It must get inflamed once in a while. I could probably also come up with several other interesting and fictional diseases for them to write about, which is why I hope they hire me as Ideas-Pitchmaster, a secret position not listed on the masthead.

(If for some reason you would like more, not less, information about headaches, allow me to direct your attention to Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain. (It is the official journal of the American Headache Society). And if there isn't enough information from this resource, you might also try the American Council for Headache Education (ACHE).)