November 1, 2006 | 2 comments
Have you ever noticed ads by pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, or health-focused foundations that predict odds of people catching a particular disease? They read something like: “1 in 7 people will get [fill in the illness] by age 65.” These ads
October 30, 2006 | 1 comment
Have you ever been mesmerized by the belief that you had to buy something in particular to be happy? Maybe you wanted a new car, a widescreen TV, a vacation package, or an updated wardrobe? Shortly after I graduated from
October 27, 2006 | 2 comments
With the surge of people racing to cosmetic surgeons for liposuction, tummy tucks, botox injections and a myriad of other surgical and nonsurgical procedures to alter their bodily appearance, it’s heartening to find one articulate voice warning people to think
October 26, 2006 | No comments yet
In the October 2006 issue of Readers Digest, the Health IQ section reported… The Institute of Medicine looked at the prevalence of medication errors and found scary stuff: The average hospital patient is the victim of about one medication error
October 25, 2006 | No comments yet
From Lew’s lines on the Sermon on the Mount: I think often of the words that are on the passenger side mirror of my car that say “Objects in mirror may be closer than they appear.” Though we hear of