Hunched over at a desk all day? Here's a quick and easy way to undo hours of bad posture.

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Lately, I could set a clock by my son's night wakings. I tease my husband that I will set my alarm for four in the morning and go stand over Owen's bed and surprise him, before he can invade our bed!

I started to thinking, though: why four o'clock in the morning? Deep in my memory, I recalled something about certain hours of the day being associated with different organ systems, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. So I looked it up.

Interesting, to say the least. It seems that the hours between three and five in the morning are when the lungs are most active. Well, wouldn't you know that Owen's allergies have been bothering him recently?

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In a situation that goes far beyond medical malpractice, a California surgeon is facing three counts of felony for allegedly speeding up the death of a man to get his organs. Dr. Roozrokh attended Stanford University, but now he could find himself spending the next eight years behind bars.

Prosecutors say he prescribed doses of drugs that caused Ruben Navarro's death. This was in an effort to get his organs (like kidneys and liver). He was supposedly given Betadine, which is a topical medication, but is said to cause death if ingested. A hearing is going on today, but something tells me a case like this could drag on for a long time.

What's sad is that this allegation, regardless about whether it's true or not, will put a little bit of fear in the hearts of potential donors in the future. Hopefully this won't cause people to pull their participation in donor programs. If you want to hear more about the case, visit the NY Times article here.

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If you were a cartoon character, stuck in a pile of snow, what would almost certainly be coming to rescue at any moment? A St. Bernard with a small barrel of brandy attached to its collar, of course. A good swig should warm you to the core, right?

Wrong, say the researchers behind the Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine's look into this very subject. Evidently, alcohol is just about the worst thing you can drink when you're cold, as it decreases the body's core temperature and increases the risk of hypothermia.

What's more, it also reverses the reflexes that control body temperature. By actually reducing the body's ability to shiver -- which is the body's natural way of creating warmth -- alcohol also increases blood flow to the skin, rather than to the organs.

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