The heart is a muscle, it is as small as a fist, and its main function is to pump blood to the entire body. This blood supply is responsible for taking nourishing oxygen to cells that enable each cell to perform its bodily function. In turn the spent blood is returned with harmful carbon dioxide [...]
Misconceptions about cardiovascular diseases — heart attacks, stroke and high blood pressure — have existed for many years and have in effect become myths. Most of them stem from factual observations during the early phase of the current global epidemic and have become deeply rooted in the minds of policymakers, health professionals and the public [...]
Top 10 Myths About Acne
I have been treating acne in my patients for over a decade.
Frequently Asked Questions About Acne
Acne is a very common disease. People who have it tend to have similar kinds of questions about it and its treatment. This section addresses some of the common questions asked by people with acne. Please remember that your dermatologist is always the best source of specific information about your individual [...]
Who Says Seniors Don?t Have Time For Health?
Senior health is a popular topic these days as aging baby boomers try to figure out the best ways to keep enjoying their goldenyears? which happily are lasting longer and longer in the 21st Century. Senior fitness is also an important issue as technology and labor-saving devices [...]
Premature Ejaculation (PE) is something that more than 10 million men in the United States alone struggle with and yet it is not something most men want to talk about. Men are too embarrassed to discuss their PE problems with their doctors, family members, and even with their wives. Where then can men go to [...]
In today’s world, people are bombarded with visual advertisements about how to look, what to wear, how to lose weight as well as how to have an active sex life. While some of the media hype is geared towards teens, college students and the twenty and thirty year old age group, other advertisements, whether on [...]
With the rise of multiple sexual partners, the rise of sexually transmitted diseases has only increased in recent years. It is vital that someone who may have been recently infected with an STD visit the doctor and start treatment as soon as possible. Without the treatment a doctor can provide, the disease could grow worse [...]
Like several heterosexual children, your gay child also would not be ready for a lecture on safe sex from his parents. But this bit of advice you cannot withhold from your gay child as more people are perishing of AIDS these days than cancer and accidents.
With nearly a tenth of the world?s population being [...]
Incontinence is a major problem for 3 million English people. This embarrassing ailment is the inability to control urine elimination, which causes sufferers to accidentally pass urine.
People of any gender or age can experience urinary incontinence, although the condition affects many more women than guys. In addition to this, it is more common in older [...]
