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Who’d be an Italian stallion?
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
Perhaps it’s the rhyme between Italian and stallion that makes the two words fit together so well — like pizza eata which many people do at weekends. It just can’t be literally true that every ...
What is the link between rheumatism and erectile dysfunction?
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
It’s a sad fact of modern life that rheumatism in all its many forms is increasingly common. As an inflammatory disease, it’s most likely to affect the joints and connective tissue, and it resists most ...
Repeat after me, "Horny Goat Weed"
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
Despite the best efforts of television shows like "Boston Legal" to show us the serious and inspirational side of the work done by attorneys, most of us feel the lives of lawyers are probably dull ...
What next for the little blue pill?
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
In the majority of cases, the grant of a patent captures the chemistry and purpose of a drug and locks it away for the given number of years. This is the monopoly given to the ...
Perks for sex offenders?
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
The world is sometimes a very strange place. When you wake up every morning and look out your window, it may all look in apple-pie order. But, secretly, weird stuff has been happening just out ...
Improve your sexual and heart condition at the same time
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
On the 7th of August, 2002 Sildenafil was proclaimed a trust-worthy and safe treatment of erectile dysfunction. The results on an online report showed that this research has been done by the journalists of a ...
Chemicals in the environment
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
It’s is great science when someone gets an unexpected result in an experiment and sets out to discover the reason. So it was that Dr Patricia Hunt, who studies genetics at Case Western Reserve University, ...
Capitalism is wonderful
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
One of the things supposed to make America the best place in the world to live is its free market economy. If you listen to the propaganda, you believe you can buy anything you want ...
Why are men with rheumatism more likely to have erectile dysfunction?
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
For physicians, there’s a deeply frustrating quality about bacteria and viruses. There are so many of them and so many different ways in which they can make us ill, it’s impossible to know which one ...
When to worry about worry
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
One of the ways in which the government attracts our attention is by having a series of steps to move from "no reason to panic" to "run for your life!" The classic example of this ...
Recognizing different types of anxiety
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
Most of us have felt that the world is about to collapse and everything will end in just a few minutes. This is quite common in situations of stress, worry and uncertainty. The feeling of ...
Sometimes too much is too much
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
There’s an old saying that, "You can’t have too much of a good thing". Well, that rather depends on the thing. For children, this is free-flow ice cream. Yet, no matter how enjoyable something is ...
How best to treat anxiety disorders
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
As is always the way when it comes to medical matters, the first step is diagnosis. The patient consults his or her regular doctor and, if a specialist’s opinion is required, there will be a ...
Cognitive behavioral therapy is the best
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
Putting aside all the pointless arguments about whether people should get so anxious, the practical reality is that they do. If this seriously disrupts their ability to lead normal lives, then something should be done. ...
The American Psychiatric Association is at it again
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
Well, it’s that time of the decade again and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is going through it ritual of revising the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM). Let’s be clear why this is important. For ...
Treating anxiety with medications
By Thomas Stalder · 14 years ago
There is a wide selection of anti-anxiety medications that are prescribed to patients with different anxiety disorders and clinical depression. Most people experience anxiety on a regular basis and it's hard to find a person ...
People praise their anxiety treatments
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
"It all began many years ago when I was graduating from my university. I was preparing myself for an important quiz and it just appeared out of nowhere". That is how Steve Madison’s email to ...
Types of anxiety disorders
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
When facing anxiety disorders a person can have all of its activities, both social and individual, affected in a negative way. And if no treatment is undertaken such disorders usually tend to become even more ...
Making panic attacks a bad memory
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
We sometimes experience nervousness. It is a common feeling. Being human gives us a whole spectrum of emotions to keep up with. These feelings and emotions either are good for us or bad. We can ...
Worry and heart patients
By Thomas Strickland · 14 years ago
For those of you who understand and support the idea of evolution, worry has probably been one of the key survival characteristics. Imagine what life must have been like as a hunter gatherer, living on ...