Guest Contributor – Dr Peter Weiss MD Life Is Complicated ! True, but does it have to be? How much of life’s complexity do we create for ourselves? A lot. How complicated have we made health in our country? We want to know everything. What does the...
The recent riots in the UK together with calls in Australia for more police powers to deal with bad behaviour by groups of young people call into question, what is going on in society? It is typical for older generations to see younger ones as troublesome and their...
Advances in assisted fertility over the last 30 years have taken us from science fiction to “test tube babies”. Whilst In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) gets the most media attention there are many other forms of assisted fertility. Yet there are two things I have noticed....
Guest Contributor – Elisa Zied Is Michelle Obama really more like the Hamburgler in disguise? Or is she simply an American woman who, according to a Washington Post reporter, had a craving for, and subsequently ordered some of her favorite comfort foods—a burger...
Earlier this year I wrote in my newsletter the following: Having fun is part of being healthy. This comes as a surprise to many people especially when one observes how miserable a lot of health experts seem to be. Laughter has been described as the best medicine and...
Guest Contributor – Dr. Lori Shemek I know you WANT to believe there is a small little pill that will just melt the fat away. Well, as you already may know, there isn’t. Yes, these cute little pills do sound tempting especially when you are depressed and...
After many years in medicine you have seen most things. Then one day something takes you by surprise. This was a person who was on 19, yes 19, different medications. Given some of these were taken more than once a day and the dose of some was more than one pill this...
When we get married, many of us are idealistic about our futures together. However, fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. Research has found that only half of those who stay married actually consider themselves “happily married” which means only 25% of couples...
