Have You Ever Talked A Jumper Down from Her Ledge?
Here’s a little background. For the past two months, Mia has been living far away from her home. She’s is staying with a former roommate and paying him rent on a weekly basis. Sadly, she made no provisions with her doctors before leaving town to have extra prescriptions so that she could refill them once she finished off the first bottle. We had been playing phone tag and this message began very casually but you can quickly see that she has fallen into a crisis by the end of her message. Mia has become more and more decompensated so that the simplest of task, such as looking up a telephone number have become overwhelming to her. She can’t remember any coping skills because she’s been without group or individual therapy for over two months (some though not all of this is through no fault of her own) and without medicine (which she only takes sporadically anyway) for nearly a month and one half. Why doesn’t Mia want to go to the hospital? In all honesty, on this day, Mia doesn’t really have the ability to make a rational decision.
Alert Day
It’s Diabetes Alert Day so use five minutes to take the Diabetes Risk Test and see where you stand. You will be getting some valuable health information. In addition, Boar’s Head is donating $5 for each test taken up to $50,000 to the American Diabetes Association.
Have You Checked Your Neck?
It’s midway through the first month of the new year and I have one powerful question for you…Where do you stand with your New Year’s Resolution(s)? Truth be told, many of us resolve at the beginning of the year to eat right, exercise and generally take better care of ourselves. Unfortunately, the challenges to truly … Read more
Got the Blues? Get Screened Online to Be Sure It’s Not Something More Serious
GOT THE BLUES? OR IS IT DEPRESSION? Ever feel like you are the only one who is sad in a world of happy people? Everyone experiences stress, sadness and anxiety from time to time – it’s part of life. These feelings often happen when you a lose a job, children move away from home, during divorce, with a death in the family, or during retirement. But when changes in mood and behavior interfere with your ability to work, sleep, eat, and enjoy once pleasurable activities, it could be a sign of depression.
Disaster Preparedness: Were You Ready?
It measured a noticable 5.8 on the Richter scale. As a novice to earthquakes, having lived on the east coast all of my life. I must say those were the longest 15 seconds I’ve experienced. We were still assessing structural damage of the National Cathedral and other buildings and infrastructure when the hurricane, Irene in the Caribbean was establishing a clear path up the Atlantic coast. Threatening to make landfall by Friday.
MDs Retool for Vaccine Safety Debate
In some counties throughout the country, as many as 25% of appropriately aged children have not been immunized. On average, however, only about 10% of parents have delayed or refused one or more of the recommended immunizations for their child(ren). Every state allows exemptions to its laws for medical, religious, or philosophic reasons. But when you combine these facts with the pervasiveness of unproven or unsubstantiated health information available on the internet, the low health and science literacy of many parents, and poor communication between parents/patients and physicians, it becomes easier to understand how myths and misinformation around childhood immunizations persists. A dangerous result can be an increase in immunization exemptions to the point where communities can become particularly vulnerable.
Are We Safe from Vaccine-Preventable Illnesses?
During one particularly severe crisis, young Vanessa stopped breathing and turned blue. In the emergency call to the doctor, Alvaro exclaimed, ”Tell me that this is normal. I mean, she’s turning blue.” At the doctor’s advice, the Fontans rushed to the nearby emergency room but it was not equipped to handle pediatric patients so an ambulance had to transfer Vanessa to a children’s hospital…
5 Topics in Men’s Health
June is Men’s Health Month. The month when fathers and surrogate fathers are recognized for all that they do is also an ideal time to heighten the awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. After all, the most powerful thing any father can do is … Read more
April is National Minority Health Month
What are health disparities? According to the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act of 2000, legislation which authorizes several HHS programs, describes these disparities as differences in “the overall rate of disease incidence (number of newly diagnosed cases of disease), prevalence (total number of cases of a disease), morbidity (amount of illness … Read more
Fighting Cancer? Be Armed with Red Grapes and Green Tea
Angio-what? Angiogenesis is a natural process in which the body generates blood vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to the tissues of the body and remove carbon dioxide and other wastes. In this compelling talk Dr. William Li, a cancer researcher explains abnormal angiogenesis
