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Drugs That Can Land You in the Emergency Room
It’s midnight at the fire station and a call goes out for a patient who has overdosed. In addition to an ambulance and medic unit, police are dispatched. As we stage for the police, to ensure that the...
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Nutty about Brain Health?
Last year, we posted news of an epigenetic diet rich in broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, fava beans and kale that claimed to reduce cancer and degenerative brain changes. Despite its alleged health...
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Getting Cheery Over Cherries!
Regular readers of SRxA’s Word on Health will be familiar with the many claimed health benefits of fruit. Bananas for HIV prevention, citrus to safeguard us against stroke, berries to prevent...
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The Growing Cost of Aging
With the election looming, we’ve heard a lot of rhetoric about healthcare. Rising costs, limited access, reforming Medicare…the list goes on and on. Whatever happens on November 6, it seems the...
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Geriatric Medicine?
Picture this…a distinguished vascular specialist in his 80′s performs surgery, then goes on vacation, forgetting he has patients in the hospital; one subsequently dies because no doctor was overseeing...
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Ho Ho Ho: health hazards for Santa
After weeks of harried holiday shopping, when the stores finally close on the evening of December 24, it will be a welcome reprieve from the madness. Families and friends gather together and enjoy a...
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Stiffness, Swelling and the Sticky Issue of Sugary Soda
Those of us of a certain age, probably know all about osteoarthritis, the “wear and tear” disease in which joint cartilage is lost. Losing cartilage from your knee is similar to having the shock...
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Papal Poor Health
On February 11, Pope Benedict XVI stunned the Catholic Church and the world when he announced his resignation by saying he no longer had the mental and physical strength to carry on. At 8pm local time...
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When’s Your Time to Die?
What are your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Obviously there are some activities that may increase your risk such as driving drunk and active military duty in a war zone, but how about getting...
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Jumping For Joy? Gene Therapy shows promise in Osteoarthritis
As regular readers of SRxA’s Word on Health know, your blogger is one of the estimated 34 million US adults who suffer from osteoarthritis. The disease, the most common form of arthritis, is...
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www.Can-I-Help-You-With-That?
There’s days when reading the news makes you feel old. Today is one of those days. It started out with the realization that the world wide web just celebrated its 20th birthday. Can it really be 20...
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Dogs Double Risk for Distracted Driving
Distracted driving is something we usually associate with teens and their cell phones, or frenzied mothers and their minivan full of kids. However the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration...
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Sleep Better, Look Better
Getting treatment for a common sleep problem may do more than help you sleep better – it may help you look better too. So says new research study from the University of Michigan Health System and...
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Don’t Fall into a Fear of Falling This Fall
As we transition from summer to fall, don’t let a fear of falling keep you from being active. That’s the alliterative advice of Helen Lach, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing at Saint Louis...
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Snuffing Out Alzheimer’s
Hot on the heels of Friday’s blog – Sniffing Out Alzheimer’s, British scientists just announced a major breakthrough that could, one day, result in a treatment for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s,...
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Could salmon and sunshine prevent brain damage?
Want to keep your brain in tip-top condition? Then you may want to put mackerel and mushrooms on your menu or start eating your salmon in the sun! That’s because a new study led by University of...
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