August 2nd, 2008 | Category: Feature, Practical Medicine |
- (Comments are closed) Our wonderful reader, Helen Howes, has won the first Ask The Doc free question! Let’s turn the mic over to you, Helen –
“Why are diabetics all diagnosed with stupidity as a side-condition of the disease? My medics (all pretty good) seem to think that in spite of a usefully large IQ, a very good […]
July 21st, 2008 | Category: In the News, Practical Medicine |
Comments are closed Oooh, there are just some kinds of evil that we’d all love to get our hands on – you know what I mean, the old “give-me-10-minutes-alone-in-the-interrogation-room-with-the-cameras-turned-off” urge. When it comes to serial killers, some have a lot to answer for. One of the worst of the worst just took a blow to the nuts, and […]
July 18th, 2008 | Category: In the News, Practical Medicine |
Comments are closed Ready to scratch your head in bafflement? Here is a beautiful, well-designed, thorough study with every criteria you could possibly want in order to get a clear answer. What’s more, this study looked at a pressing, serious, common issue that is near to all our hearts (so to speak) – does exercise and eating well […]
July 17th, 2008 | Category: In the News, Practical Medicine |
- (Comments are closed) Diabetes treatment is becoming more, not less, controversial. Here is another in a series of recent articles trying to answer the question – how low should you go in trying to get glucose levels as close to normal as possible? In other words, the diabetes limbo game. In our first study, the glucose measurement used […]
July 12th, 2008 | Category: Feature, In the News, Practical Medicine, Uncategorized |
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Run (don’t walk) your fingers over to click on this link to a great article by Jane Gross of the New York Times. In it, she spells out four major steps she wishes she’d done differently when her mother was failing at home. Today more and more Americans are the sandwich generation, and, like […]
July 11th, 2008 | Category: Feature, In the News, Practical Medicine |
Comments are closed Seems like a weird idea, right? However, research shows that children conceived by donor sperm (or eggs) benefit greatly from hearing about how they were conceived early in life – specifically before the age of 4. While this may be a bit hard from some of us to get our heads around, the facts of […]
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