“I don’t know what’s happening to me, I don’t feel normal, I don’t where I am.” Or “I don’t know why I get so angry these days, just pissed off, I feel so many more emotions than I did.” Sound familiar? Not just patients express new feelings of distress and disturbance, but people at the bus […]
Preventing Dementia
Preventing Dementia Many people are scared of death, but often tell me they’re more frightened of dementia. “I can’t face that,” one patient told me, “I can’t do that to my family.” So how to stop it? One Swedish study shows a way. It includes a follow up of 44 years. Persistence can pay off. In […]
Defending the Right to Walk
Why is it acceptable that walking is dangerous? Sarasota, where I live and walk, is a pleasant place, but ranks tenth among American municipalities in pedestrian deaths. That’s not unusual, for eight of the top ten most dangerous cities for walkers are in Florida. Every work day I walk to my office located two blocks from the main […]
Happy Enemies of Sleep
Cellphones, televisions, pads, monitors, are not generally considered unwitting enemies of sleep, yet often are. We have great fun with electronic lights, but we are not built for light at night. At night we are designed to sleep. A recent study from Kenneth Wright’s group at the University of Colorado highlights for preschoolers what has long been […]
Marketing Medical Marijuana
Mother’s Milk California’s Big Daddy Jesse Unruh often intoned, “money is the mother’s milk of politics,” yet today we can say “money is the mother’s milk of medicine.” Any industry which takes up 17-18% of the economy leaves a lot of cash slashing around. And the latest entrant to the giant cash prize of $3.3 trillion a year […]
