Long recognized as a significant health issue for post-menopausal women, Osteoporosis also poses a significant risk to men on a Hormone Blockade (ADT). Osteoporosis, the loss of bone density, poses an immediate and direct risk of fractures to men on ADT! A decline in the serum testosterone in men on ADT correlates with a decline [...]
D - Totally made up. Devin was not inquisitive about the spider, he didn't think it was cool (sorry Darren) at all. In fact he was totally freaked out by it, and he should have been. That thing was so big and hairy I could have put a leash on it. It's web was so [...]
The result of the early departure of the New York Yankees from the playoffs last night may also mean that if George Steinbrenner is true to his word -- that manager Joe Torre is finished. Most people do believe that Torres will eventually lose his job. No matter whether you believe that Torres should go [...]
There has been along standing controversy pertaining to the timing of ADT initiation (i.e. early verses late). However, in 2002 the Cochrane meta-analysis (Nair B, Wilt T, MacDonald R et al., "Early versus Deferred Androgen Suppression in the Treatment of Advanced Prostate Cancer", Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2002); (1): CD003506) clarified this issue. Initiating early [...]
Lately Devin has been asking a lot of random questions. He seems to be at that dreadful age where kids ask all kinds of questions about things that we don't really think about. He has the wife and I either scrambling for kid-friendly language, or just changing the subject. He's not a philosopher yet, but [...]