Building a Dog House? – The Type of Wood to Use Despite the fact that many families provide their dog with a wooden dog house in their backyard, only a few people realize there happens to be quite a few various kinds of wood offered on the market. Cedar is definitely the most popular kind […]
Diets for Fibromyalgia A specific fibromyalgia diet for each person with fibromyalgia does not exist. However, a common denominator for all fibromyalgia cases is inflammation. Diet that decreases inflammation in the body is the key. The challenge is that foods behave differently for all people. What is inflammatory for one person may be anti-inflammatory for […]
What Is the Difference Between a Pilates Workout and Yoga? To begin with, both types of exercise are a very natural form of exercise for both and mind, and it would appear, especially recently, many more people seem to be involved in one form of Pilates workout or another. A Pilates workout can take the […]
Does Shingles And Psoriasis Have Anything In Common? As a practicing pharmacist, I am often asked questions that patients would love to talk to their physicians about, but since I am more accessible, they often ask me. Recently, one of my psoriasis patients asked me if they have an increased risk for getting shingles because […]
How To Avoid Giving Away Money Unintentionally The following four types of fraud have implications for almost all businesses and we all need to think of ways of reducing the risk they pose. Cyber Fraud. There are too many kinds to go into here, but I will mention something I have encountered a lot: Phishing. […]
Why Boundaries Are Still Important During Covid 19 I’ve been enjoying getting caught-up with old friends and family, and also staying in-touch with friends BUT I have realized it’s still important to have healthy boundaries! We could literally be on a zoom call every day if we wanted to! Not to mention all of the […]
Health Architecture Redesign – One End of the Spectrum Maternal and Child Mortality in Nigeria For the most part, Nigeria is doing poorly in the health industry. Given its developmental stage however, the country is not expected to perform at the same level of excellence with Industrialized countries. But its poor and jeopardized developmental pathway […]
Doctor, Please Treat Me Like a Dog! Since The beginning of time there has been disease and various ways to relieve it. It seems that every culture developed its own mythology of how disease occurred and an accompanying mythology of how treatment modalities word work. What is even more impressive is that most, if not […]
The Third World – Improved Or Engineered? Mike Davis and his ideas of the effect of Western contact with the Third World varies greatly from that of P. T. Bauer. Bauer, in his essay entitled “Western Guilt and Third World Poverty”, claims, “Since the middle of the 19th century commercial contacts established by the West […]
Pros and Cons of a Herpes Blood Test A new herpes blood test has just come onto the market and is the center of much controversy. The most accurate method of determining if you have herpes or not is by doing a direct swab from an open sore, be it oral or genital. This will […]