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Knees are a weak point

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

Every time you want to move from A to B, you are on your feet and legs are in motion. Without knees working well, this can be painful or impossible. They are the joints that ...

Dealing with low back pain

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

A recent survey confirmed what most of us have known for years. At some point in most people's lives, you pull up short. There's this sudden violent pain coming from your lower back. No matter ...

Life is not all about pleasant surprises and moments full of happy tears. Life is a mixture of black and white, advantages and disadvantages, good and bad. Unfortunately, we are only humans who are not ...

Erectile dysfunction drugs are profitable

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

As a title to an article, this may not look very exciting, but there's a real problem to talk about. We need to start with the latest profit figures announced by the three pharmaceutical companies ...

Low sexual satisfaction

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

If you go back just a little more than one-hundred years, the law effectively made women the property of men. While young, they were under the control of their fathers. When married, they were controlled ...

Does exercise help weight loss?

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

Sometimes, you just take things for granted. It's so obvious, you need never think about it. So, we have always known the only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you eat. ...

Improving mobility

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

Sometimes the body does not do what you want it to do. When the cause is an accidental injury or a disease coming later in life, you know what you have lost and can motivate ...

Does it really work for alcoholics?

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

There's a sad fact when it comes to the world of medicine. Somehow rumors get started. A drug has been tried and found successful off-label. If it worked for this person, it will work for ...

Keeping Hair is Good for Prostate

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

With all the bad press that "cosmetic" drugs get these days, it's nice to find one that is lauded for its medical abilities. While the hairless have long been persecuted by the haired, they have ...

More Than Just a Baldness Drug

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

How does a relatively new drug get to be so immensely popular so quickly? Is it the marketing campaigns? Undoubtedly that's a part of it, but they aren't selling snake oil, they're selling the truth. ...

The Cure to the Anaplasmosis Pandemic

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

The headlines are everywhere: "New Lyme Disease Claims 50 Lives"; "Chinese Tick-born Illness Strikes Again"; "Chinese Plague Threatens US". However, it is unclear exactly how dangerous this disease truly is. Yes, tens of people have ...

Stopping Lyme Disease, Preventing an Epidemic

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

1975, in Lyme, Connecticut, USA, the world realized a new threat to human health. The eponymous Lyme Disease entered human language. Since then, researchers have ferreted out the cause and means of transmission of the ...

Acne affecting more adults now

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

Once children are old enough to start to talking to each other about what it's going to be like when they are teens, the first thing mentioned is likely to be acne. Forget all the ...

New Zealand offers hope

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

One of the longer running political hot potatoes has been tort reform. Talk to anyone in the GOP and they will tell you we are going to Hell in a basket because every time anything ...

Low sex drive in women

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

If you look at the consumer information that comes with your weekend pills, you will see the usual line that this drug is intended for men. After all, when you look at the biology, it's ...

Tips to stay active

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

There's one sad and inescapable fact. As we age, sexual performance starts to fail. It's one of the real frustrations of life. You remember how it used to feel and then feel embarrassed by the ...

What is pain?

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

One of the tactics most often used by the folk who promote vegetarianism is to show us video of animals being killed for their meat. To make their point, they usually pick images showing the ...

Understanding and Treating Nerve Pain, Neuralgia

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

Nerves are the pathways the body uses to communicate things from pain to temperature to just general sensation. The system of nerves in the body is known as the nervous system. Normally, it is very ...

Minimize your Pain, Maximize Painkiller Power

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

First, commiserations for your pain. But congratulations on getting the right painkiller. To make sure you get the most from it and make sure it has the best chance of easing your suffering, since some ...

Common Acne Treatment Cures Childhood Cancer?

By Thomas Strickland · 13 years ago

Neuroblastoma is a type of cancer that afflicts babies and children. The malignant tumor grows in their nerve tissue, causing fever, general illness, and pain at first, then a loss of appetite, weight loss, diarrhea, ...