Healthcare Matters“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.” – Abraham MaslowGoogle “healthcare” and it returns 99,900,000 results. Healthcare seems to be […]
Much has been about said about empowering and educating patients to be partners in the healthcare dance. From the e-patient and e-health revolutions through the piles of research showing more engaged patients have better outcomes, all seem to point a more active role and increased responsibility for the patient in his or her own care. […]
Menopause is barreling down with a ferocity that is difficult to ignore. Like many women my age, I’ve had my share of health challenges and, until recently, blindly trusted the pharmaceutical industry to fix all that ailed me. Health by chemistry was a great thing; oral contraceptives, a fabulous invention, allergy meds – ditto, pain […]
As I described in my last post, hormones are substances secreted by various glands or organs throughout the body that have an effect on other organs or organ systems either in a positive or negative way. Men and women have pretty much the same hormones but the production of the sex steroids estrogen, progesterone, and […]
Drug Development Conducted mostly in Male RodentsAccording to most researchers, male rodents share enough in common with human females to extrapolate findings about the mechanisms and treatment of pain. A review of research in the journal Pain (2007) found that over a ten year period, fully 79% of all animal studies published, performed drug testing […]
Art and CancerWhen my daughter was a little girl, we used to create fairy tales together. I would draw them, and she would write them. As she grew up, she started to feel a lot of pelvic pain, which her doctors ultimately told her was from cancer. This is my story about how she battled […]
And we all have hormones. Those wonderfully mysterious chemicals circulating and cycling with the regularity and rapidity that makes one’s head spin, female hormones are at once the bane and the joy of man’s existence. Our hormones are what make us find you attractive, laugh at your jokes, date you, sleep with you and bear […]
FibromyalgiaI’m a relatively healthy guy. Most of the aches and pains I experience are from doing stupid things in my youth, that are now showing up as I get older.My wife Bonnie and I just celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary. To look at her you’d think, first, she doesn’t look her age (52) and second, […]