Tag: health
member name: Howard M.
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February 10, 2007 05:35 AM EST --
Depression is endemic in the United States. But what does that statement, albeit true, actually mean? What is depression? How do we know that someone is depressed? How do we measure this condition . . . more
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February 12, 2007 06:55 AM EST --
The first part of this article comprised definitions and a little epidemiology, pretty much factual and inarguable. It was easy to write. This part is hard. The facts are not as solid or well defined. . . . more
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June 04, 2008 02:42 AM EDT --
I have a friend who lived on my street for forty years. After his wife died, he moved to live with his daughters. Currently, he is in Washington D. C. He is healthy, ninety, and he is bored. . . . more
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December 15, 2006 03:54 AM EST --
This is an actual letter that I am sending to a life insurance company to which I recently applied for a policy. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. This is another of my series . . . more
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March 04, 2007 12:12 PM EST --
Anxiety was defined in the Acute Anxiety article and will not be dealt with in detail in this one. Remember, however, that it is a physical response mediated, primarily, by the sympathetic branch of the . . . more
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March 11, 2007 05:39 AM EDT --
Would you rather be obsessive-compulsive or anxious? As strange as that may sound, that's the choice that some people's psyches make at some unconscious level. It's not a particularly good . . . more
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May 31, 2007 07:28 AM EDT --
When I was much younger, and just beginning graduate work, I was relatively convinced that intelligence was a young person's domain. I was keenly aware of the cross sectional studies that appeared . . . more
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March 02, 2007 05:03 AM EST --
What happened to all of the neurotics? Nothing except a name change. Now, they have anxiety disorders. Actually, they all had anxiety before, called, neurotic anxiety and they were named for the . . . more
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February 25, 2007 07:33 AM EST --
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May 15, 2007 05:41 AM EDT --
What you may well need to know about sleep apnea
Sleep apnea is a far more common -- and far more serious -- disorder than most people realize. Its actual prevalence is not known . . . more
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January 16, 2008 08:23 PM EST --
A potentially very important article appeared in the European Heart Journal last week. A summary of the findings was published in Physician's First Watch, an internet service that scans . . . more
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February 26, 2007 12:00 AM EST --
Disclaimer: This article is for educational purposes only. It does not constitute psychological or medical advice and should not be construed to do so.
In a previous article, I described . . . more
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November 04, 2006 04:26 AM EST --
Health care is a subject that occupied much of my professional career, in several ways. As a consequence, I have avoided writing about it, recently, because it was too much like work and because . . . more
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April 13, 2007 03:20 AM EDT --
Note that the title of this article is Treatment of Anxiety, not, Treatment of Anxiety Disorders. Anxiety is a fact of everyday life for the vast majority of people, including those who have no psychiatric . . . more
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