Cell phones have changed our world dramatically. Not only do your teenagers spend every minute of every day tweeting, texting, checking the latest posts on facebook or talking, they also manage to do all of this on a small phone! Yet as the phones become more and more like computers, [...]

Not only are baby boomers the largest generation in American history, they are (gasp!) getting older with the earliest members approaching 65.  And while the majority of its members-just like most Americans, don't exercise enough or not all, there is a sizable minority who still pounds it out whether at [...]

In the last two blogs you have just read about ways to waste your health care dollars. How about health products that are actually worth the money you spend? I am writing here about items which you can purchase in your local store. You would think that I could easily [...]

Last blog I discussed five ways to waste your health care dollars. Here are the last five ways: 5. Skin lotions: Although many are "dermatologist tested" and heavily advertised, the overwhelming majority of these very expensive lotions will do nothing special for your skin. In fact, other than Eucerin or [...]

Undoubtedly we Americans are a consumer driven society. We love to buy and do so at times when we really shouldn't. Yet on other occasions we don't buy when we really should have. When it comes to healthcare, we exhibit the same kind of illogical behavior: We go out and [...]

If your teenager doesn't seem to respond when you ask him  for umpteenth time to please stop tweeting, texting or engaging in yet another mindnumbing online game, it might not be that he's not listening. Some teens suffer hearing loss from the usual culprits: turning that Ipod on max volume [...]

Remember how much fun it was to run barefooted, your feet brushing along the freshly cut grass? Remember also how your cosmic high was smashed to smithereens, as soon as your foot stepped on that rusty nail?  Puncture w0unds are all too common. For the most part these wounds are [...]

I have nothing against stretching. In fact I spend about five minutes after running, biking or walking  with various stretches. I try not to bounce, which is a common mistake among males, who for God knows why, seem to think that briefly touching the toes (or for those of us [...]

Fingers are really important. Just think for a moment of all the tasks that your fingers do. Since these little guys have so many functions, they have evolved to have extensive nerves, muscles and joints. Unfortunately, with all this complexity comes a greater chance of injury. One of the injuries [...]

Watching TV may actually shorten your life span. Granted, the dramatic soap operas, the cheesy commercials and the overpaid yet under skilled actors contribute to a less than stellar experience. But for God's sake: ESPN? Mash reruns? Saturday night live? Sedentary behavior, ie sitting and not doing much else has been [...]