What is Autism? I wanted to wait awhile and educate myself as to what it is said to be and what it looks like for us. Medically and diagnostically speaking it is a pervasive developmental spectrum disorder. This means that if you line a hundred children with Autism up together you will find three areas [...]
October 23, 2009 Today I met with the mother of a 16 year old boy who is Autistic. She echoed, but in a way I could finally hear, what the pediatrician had finally begun to suspect and what speech pathologist had immediately suggested upon meeting my son. This mother said what I knew, what even [...]
Q: Should you always avoid alcohol when taking antibiotics? A: No. But nasty interactions can occur with a small number of antibiotics. If you’re someone who enjoys alcohol, being on antibiotics can be a bit of a spoiler. After all, juice and water aren’t what first come to mind when you’re invited for Christmas drinks. [...]
A: Yes, but it’s uncommon in our sedentary society. We’re always being urged to exercise regularly. We know exercise can help prevent or cure a host of health conditions, and that if we all exercised more, there would be much less heart disease, cancer and diabetes in the world. But if a little exercise is [...]
Sex hurts. That’s the bottom line for millions of women. Burning, stinging, raw, stabbing, and itching are just a few of the words women use to describe the agony they experience not just during sex, but at work or even when performing everyday activities. Sexual pain syndrome is a devastating condition that can wreck self-esteem, [...]
Drinking two cups of green tea a day could, over time, halve a person’s risk of having the most common form of stroke, Australian researchers say. Researcher Professor Colin Binns, of the School of Public Health at Curtin University in Western Australia, says their research shows people who drink at least one cup of green [...]
Tailored programs could help curb aversion and improve adherence to weight loss plan. For arachnophobes, it’s difficult to kill a spider as it scurries across the floor. Those who are scared to fly might not ever set foot on a plane. While nothing physically stops people with these aversions, a mental barrier can keep them [...]
A new study reveals that women who smoke are at greater risk of developing major depressive disorder. The study has been published today the British Journal of Psychiatry. Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Barwon Health assessed a group of 1043 Australian women, whose health had been monitored for a decade as part of [...]
There is concern that more women are drinking heavily Women do not know about one of the biggest health risks linked to drinking too much – a raised chance of breast cancer, says a survey. While most knew that excessive alcohol intake could lead to liver disease or liver cancer, fewer than one in five [...]
A couple of weeks ago I was on call. It is either in the evening, night or weekends when regular clinics are closed. We work from a hospital location. The team includes nurses and doctor’s assistants who pick up the phone, doctors who are seeing patients at the clinic and doctors driving around the region [...]
