Tag: harvard
group name: staywell
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January 14, 2008 04:28 PM EST --
One of my patients is now considering whether to have children. While this is never a simple decision for anyone, hers is made even more complicated because she has panic disorder. Although she's . . . more
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March 10, 2008 01:49 PM EDT --
Several patients I'm treating for depression also suffer from migraine headaches. One of them asked me recent if there is any connection between the two. Definitely—but it's a bit complicated. . . . more
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May 08, 2007 10:40 AM EDT --
Americans take a lot of medicines. I am a Primary Care Physician, and much of my life's work is helping people prevent health problems. I recommend a growing number of medicines to guard my patients’ . . . more
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March 11, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
Some nights the newscasts make it seem unsafe to eat, breathe, exercise, or sit still. Yet even as the number of hazards in our daily lives seems to be multiplying, reports of treatment breakthroughs . . . more
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October 08, 2008 09:35 AM EDT --
Fifteen years ago, if I suggested to a patient that marital or job difficulties might be contributing to his headaches or abdominal pains, the patient might have been insulted, as if I were minimizing . . . more
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November 13, 2007 04:45 PM EST --
I write prescriptions for sleeping pills all the time, but it is never my own idea. My patients ask me for them. The TV advertising for sleeping pills is incredibly effective—but are the pills? . . . more
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July 03, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
It’s a common sight: people carrying water bottles at the mall, around the office, wherever they go. It’s enough to make you wonder whether dehydration is a major public health . . . more
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March 17, 2008 05:23 PM EDT --
Here's a joke my patients seem to like: A guy goes to the doctor, who tells him he has to give up smoking, drinking, and sex. Guy says, "Gee, doc…will that really help me live longer?" . . . more
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March 24, 2008 10:16 AM EDT --
Believe it or not, the brief exposure to nutrition I received in medical school in the early 1980s focused almost entirely on vitamin deficiencies. We medical students learned about scurvy and rickets, . . . more
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September 04, 2008 10:04 PM EDT --
The New York Post and Wall Street Journal ran articles during the Olympics making the claim that Michael Phelps’ diet contains 12,000 calories each day. It could be true. Phelps is 6’4”, and weighs . . . more
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February 25, 2008 01:47 PM EST --
It's become a tradition in my family. After we drop our kids at camp near Augusta, Maine, we stop in Freeport on our drive back to Boston.
Freeport is the home of clothing retailer L.L. Bean, which . . . more
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June 02, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
I have a neighbor who prides himself on having the perfect lawn. He spends hours each week tending, mowing, and weed-whacking his yard. I get tired just watching him.
Perfectionism can be exhausting. . . . more
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May 08, 2007 10:15 AM EDT --
How much money did you spend on prescription drugs last year? $500? $1,000? So much that you don’t want to think about it?
You probably know as well as any health-care analyst that the cost of prescription . . . more
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May 29, 2007 12:50 PM EDT --
In Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Konstantin Levin keeps himself strong and healthy by tending to his immense farm, even taking up a scythe to mow his fields. Perhaps you are a modern day Levin who, in part, . . . more
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March 24, 2008 10:06 AM EDT --
Like many people, I enjoy a late-night snack—especially when the Boston Red Sox are playing a late game or if I'm burning the midnight oil to get some work done. The occasional late-night snack . . . more
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June 05, 2007 11:45 AM EDT --
Not all fat is the same. So it’s not just how much fat you have that’s important for your health. It’s where that fat is located.
Most of our body fat sits under the skin. This fat, . . . more
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July 03, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
Nutritionists are often asked, "Which is better: tap water or bottled water?" Surprisingly, very little objective, credible research exists to answer this question. This means that deciding which . . . more
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July 10, 2007 02:17 PM EDT --
Every time you take antibiotics, sensitive bacteria are killed, but resistant germs may be left to grow and multiply. These bacteria might cause an illness at a later time, and antibiotics would be ineffective . . . more
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September 04, 2007 04:31 PM EDT --
I just had The Test. It seems like it was only yesterday. Maybe it was yesterday. The details are fuzzy already. The truth is I can barely remember a thing.
Having just turned 50, I was supposed to have . . . more
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September 11, 2007 02:07 PM EDT --
Nothing seems more inevitable than aging and death—not even taxes. Yet as we better understand the biological processes of aging, we’re realizing that aging may be a process that can . . . more
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