Health Blogs

Heart disease is the number-one killer for both men and women. Although cancer, particularly breast cancer, frequently gets the lion’s share of publicity, heart disease is far more deadly and ... Read More »

What is worse for cancer risk in women, smoking or drinking? Well, as you may have suspected, it looks like smoking. Women who smoke for 35 years or more have a 59% higher risk of developing breast ... Read More »

Just think back to your own teenage years. I’m sure you regret a thing or two you did in trying to fit in. Hopefully, nothing further than a good learning experience came from it but life tells ... Read More »

Ecstasy (3,4 methylededioxymethamphemtamine [MDMA]) is an illegal synthetic amphetamine used as a stimulant and hallucinogen. People aged 18-34 are the majority of ecstasy users and many in my ... Read More »

The subject of how alcohol affects our health is an interesting and conflicted one. Alcohol has been identified through large population studies cited in the Harvard Medical School Guide to ... Read More »

I am really angry about how the media has responded to this obviously very troubled man. Now I do not condone his behavior but it seems to me that this man is suffering greatly with an untreated and ... Read More »

Get ready everybody, there is a new “legal” stimulant in town, and kids have discovered it. This powerful and dangerous stimulant is MPDV or methylenedioxypyrovalerone and it’s marketed as bath ... Read More »

I was hiking with an old friend yesterday. As I started huffing and puffing up a not too steep hill I wondered what happened to that New Year’s resolution I made about exercise. I thought here it ... Read More »

I recently watched a report on a news program about the addictive nature of slot machines. There are arguments to be made on both sides of whether gambling is truly addictive or not, and of course ... Read More »