OK. I am fat. I wasn’t really fat until I started on a hormone blockade. Well, maybe I was a little over weight before, but I wasn’t fat. So, can I say that my doctors have made me fat? Despite who is actually at fault, I am the one who will suffer the consequences. I [...]
My name is Keith and I'm a Facebook holdout. For the last several months I've been leaning toward joining the club, but I can't seem to bring myself to do it. I can barely keep up with my blog, and the in-the-flesh friends I have, much less an online community. Plus Facebook seems like so [...]
On Tuesday, we will be inaugurating a new president, President Elect Obama. Obama has inherited a country in severe financial distress, unemployment rates are at an amazingly high rate, bankruptcy filing at a new high and the real state market has crashed. No matter where you turn, there are houses in foreclosure and most people’s [...]
Andrew Cuomo, the Attorney General in New York State, just completed an agreement with a major medical insurer, which will create a fairer method to set reimbursement rates for medical treatment that has been obtained out of network. UnitedHealth Group, which is the nation’s second largest health insurer, has agreed to modify their system of [...]
We hear a lot about alternative therapies and the use of diet to control our prostate cancer. We are encouraged to stop eating red meat, stop drinking milk (especially skim milk) and increase our consumption of plant-based items. Is there any scientific rationalization for any of these recommendations? Can we expect to experience any extra [...]