Confronting pain, strain, crud and bugs. Naturally.
A recent story in the New York Times really struck me. It’s a fascinating account of a professional financial planner, of all people, who lost his home to foreclosure, the result of buying way more house than the family budget could handle, especially in the wake of the downturn in home values. In his account [...]
If there were ever a case for maintaining a healthy, balanced immune system and staying away from antibiotic overuse, a recent piece in The Atlantic is it and should send everyone scrambling to get as healthy as humanly–or superhumanly–as possible. Imagine a world years from now where life expectancy declines dramatically, and huge portions of health [...]
The FDA issued an alert this past week that shortages of drugs, which reached a record high in 2010, are rising at an even greater pace in 2011. Me, I’d never heard of a “drug shortage.” Penicillin has been in short supply from time to time. Flu vaccines were also scarce a couple years ago [...]
Well, I get back from vacation and boom! I’m zapped with the bronchial crud. I could feel it coming on Sunday. Sunday night I was coughing persistently (that phlegmy cough, by the way). Monday I got some extra sleep but still went to work. Tuesday, I’m back in the saddle, cough pretty much gone and [...]
Gonna go off the reservation here for a bit. I just heard part of a show on NPR this morning that really made me think. Tom Ashbrook’s excellent interview show, “On Point,” today talked about the huge addition problem in the U.S. with prescription drugs, specially painkillers. He called it nothing short of an epidemic. [...]
As the debate over health care in the U.S. continues to rage, one statistic still blows my mind. A PriceWaterhouseCoopers study from 2008 showed that half of the $2.2 trillion (now $2.64 trillion) spent on health care in the U.S. are wasted dollars! Waste how?? In addition to insurance and hospital administrative bureaucracy, the biggest [...]
There’s more news on health products making claims they can’t substantiate and getting in trouble by the feds. One of these products is POM, the pommegranite juice maker. Reports this week say the FTC has cited POM for using using marketing language permitted only for FDA-approved drugs, which violates the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. [...]
Someone on Twitter not too long ago said, “Twitter is made up of 60% social media experts, 30% spammers and 10% real conversations.” Or something close to that. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thing is, if you’re targeted in who you seek out to follow and engage with on Twitter, that 10% is [...]
When I worked for a manufacturer of the natural carotenoid lutein (good for the eyes), I was involved in a study project conducted by the Natural Products Foundation and the Lewin Group. The study examined the body of published research for several nutritional supplement compounds – Lutein, Calcium, Vit. D, Fish Oil. Based on a [...]
My daughters will head to college at the end of the summer. If they have a health problem while at college, they’ll likely go to the university health centers at their respective schools. This means they’ll be seeing a new doctor, someone other than the doc they’ve gone to for the past 18 years. Wouldn’t [...]
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