Healthcare

How do you know when you need a root canal? — It started six months ago with what I thought would be a simple fix. Part of a tooth filling chipped, so I went to the dentist to have it repaired. But after the dental work, eating on the right side of my mouth was painful. I decided to wait it…

I am almost done with my week in Ukraine, travelling around the south west and visiting the partners of the humanitarian organization that I work for. We have met with partners small and large, all of them providing assistance in the health care sector in one way or another. There…

And yes, I do mean *all* drugs. — Hormone Replacement Therapy It’s May of 2018, and I’m sitting on an examination table at Howard Brown Health Center’s TPAN location. My nurse practitioner, Jon Stryker, is a cheery, open-faced man with a trimmed grey beard. He’s sitting easefully in a chair across from me, with a laptop at his side, and asking…

Just ask anyone in the pharmaceutical business — While our new Republican Congress fiddles around figuring out which one of their colleagues they plan to investigate next, they’ve overlooked the long-forgotten promise by their party to replace the Affordable Care Act with a brighter and better alternative. Remember when Donald Trump promised to repeal and replace Obamacare if…

New research compares progressive and nonprogressive exercise — Hypertension is a common issue I encounter in the clinic. While medication can control blood pressure, it does nothing to correct the root cause and fix the issue. Lifestyle change is required to truly tackle hypertension. This largely falls in the diet and exercise buckets. Very briefly on the former…eat…