Health Blogs

1. It’s complicated: The bladder has two functions that are totally opposite of the other. One is to relax and stretch out so it can store urine (and fill like a balloon,) and the other is ... Read More »

Early in my career I worked with chronically mentally ill patients. These were patients that suffered from profound mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, that truly impaired their daily ... Read More »

In the groundbreaking book, The Healing Power of Doing Good,by Allan Luks and writer Peggy Payne, we are offered insights into the relationship between health and doing good by helping ... Read More »

I’m sure many of you have heard my rants about the direction our health care system is going. You’ve heard my concerns of the number of children who are under-insured or who have no insurance ... Read More »

I have just been diagnosed with Meniere’s Disease. Two years ago, my left ear began to roar, as if I’d just left a rock concert, and while it is hard to describe, my hearing was diminished on the ... Read More »

Most of what we have learned about pain in the last few years has helped answer why patients with some pain syndromes, have pain. Fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, interstitial cystitis, TMJ, ... Read More »

Advocacy groups for chronic Lyme disease have become increasingly vocal. Lyme disease is a rare, geographically limited (only occurs in specific parts of the U.S.) tick-borne infection. Lyme disease ... Read More »

The six currently approved treatments for multiple sclerosis (MS) all involve injections either every day, weekly or monthly. Well, the next two years are finally bringing what we’ve been waiting ... Read More »

Treatment of chronic pain requires an approach that includes psychological intervention for success. A recent report suggests that non-pharmacologic therapies may be at least as effective as ... Read More »