By: Robert Samuelson Uncontrolled health spending poses ugly choices: raise taxes, gut other programs or run ever-larger and dangerous deficits Unless you’re a news junkie, you probably missed Mark McClellan’s announcement that he’ll resign in early October, after two grueling years as head of CMS. What’s CMS? Well, it’s the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [...]
By Cynth’ya Lewis Reed This is more about the seriousness of being able to extend quality of life. That’s all that’s important to me in my life now. . . do things that help extend and improve the quality of life. When I asked a few weeks ago if any authors wanted to go [...]
This is a true case of a japanese man from Gifu Prefecture who complains incessantly about a persistent headache. Mr. Shota Fujiwara loves his sashimi and sushi very much to the extent of trying to get them as “alive and fresh” as can be for his insatiable appetite. He developes a severe headache for the [...]
Known largely as a component of rocket fuel, perchlorate is a pollutant that often turns up in soil and water. In dozens of studies, it has perturbed thyroid-hormone concentrations, which can affect growth and neurological development. Data from fish now indicate that perchlorate can also disrupt sexual development. Some of the changes were so dramatic [...]
The condom broke. You think you could be pregnant or been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease. So you turn to your cell phone for help: “if u hve sex, u can get an STD + not know it. Chlamydia, gonorrhea=no symptoms most of the time Dropin get chcked FREE,” reads the text message tip, [...]
Sexual problems can be so complicated. Say, for example, you can only climax from oral sex. Is the problem physical (you need to try new positions during intercourse), psychological (you saw your parents making love when you were 5 and never recovered), or emotional (maybe you’ve never found a man who could make you feel [...]
You’ve been P.C. in the bedroom long enough. Now it’s time to step into the way-back machine — set it to “B.C.” — and learn some no-holds-barred, bedrock-shaking moves. You: man. Me: woman in age of feminism. Me teach you: Be responsive to my desires. Stay attuned to my subtle cues. Also: Stop hitting me [...]
CHILDREN under 16 would be automatically reported to the police if they seek advice on contraception, pregnancy or abortion, under government proposals. Family planning and health campaigners said yesterday that the plans, which would do away with a child’s right to confidential sexual health advice, would be disastrous because they would deter many from seeking [...]
According to the American Obesity Association, about 30% of children ages 6 to 11 are overweight and 15.5% are obese.’Hie latest data from the Center tor Disease Contn)l reports that the number of children considered overweight lias tripled since-19H(). Hiere’s a growing demand for plus-size children s apparel, and according to a recent report from [...]
For all the disregard evoked by their name, the neglected diseases—which include AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other tropical scourges such as leishmaniasis, Buruli ulcer, and Chagas’ disease—have been receiving a lot of attention of late. The current wave of interest began in February, 2005, with a campaign led by scientists to promote a global trade [...]