Psychosis | Lost Touch with Reality
Reality checks are important for all of us–some more than others. Joan Rivers gives Hollywood fashionistas a run for their money, such as her criticisms of Cate Blanchett’s Givenchy dress at the...
View ArticlePrescription Drug Plans | Illogical & Torture
Math has always been a favorite subject of mine. Go figure, I’m Asian! However, in my teeny-tiny hometown in Ohio, we were lucky if we had an abacus or a protractor. Okay, it wasn’t that bad, but when...
View ArticleHepatitis C | Should you be screened like Pamela Anderson?
Pamela Anderson is one of the biggest blond bombshells in the history of Hollywood. I have never watched an episode of Baywatch, but I still know her famous look in the red swimsuit while carrying that...
View ArticleBrain-eating amoebic | Bad Boy Ameobas
Reincarnation doesn’t sound appealing to me. For example, it seems all the Hollywood stars were kings or some other fantastic legends in past lives. Why couldn’t they have just been ho-hum people?...
View ArticleScreen for testicular cancer | The Ball Is in Your Court?
Friends is a show I just never appreciated. You remember: that’s the show where three men and three women live in NYC without having any significant gay friends. That’s like living in the Big Apple and...
View ArticleLetting Go of a Doctor | So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye
Cooking isn’t a passion of mine, but I do enjoy feeding people. I wish I were Bobby Flay so my guests would salivate a week ahead of time in anticipation of my dinner party. Instead, I get a few...
View ArticleOrganophosphates | Poison Towards Greener Pastures?
“One thousand weeds in the lawn, one thousand nasty weeds. Take one out, pass it about, 999 weeds in the lawn.” Yes, I sing my own variation of “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” while I do yard work....
View ArticlePrecocious Puberty | Ahead of your time
Precocious is an adjective people have used to describe me ever since I can remember. I didn’t wear cool adult clothes like Manny on “Modern Family.” I didn’t star in a major movie before I was 10...
View ArticleGout | Yabba Dabba OW!
Fred Flintstone had the biggest feet, and he used them to propel his car. I’ll bet a pedicure would have cost him a grand! Fred loved his brontosaurus ribs, and perhaps a few beers at the Water Buffalo...
View ArticleStevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) |...
Rash people do rash things, including giving other people a psychological rash. We all do rash things— well, unless you’re Arnold Schwarzenegger who knows how to keep his mouth shut about a love child...
View ArticleAsbestosis | Making it hard to breathe
Smoke makes most of us want to gag. Thank God people can’t smoke in airplanes anymore. In the pre-historic era, there were smoking and nonsmoking sections in planes. Gee, in a closed cabin without an...
View ArticleMucormycosis in Joplin, Missouri | Facing horrible fungi
Faces define people the most (well, unless you’re Representative Anthony Weiner). Makeup can completely transform a person. Tabloids always flash pictures of celebrities without make-up to shock the...
View ArticleMeningioma | Mary Tyler Moore’s Brain Tumor
Mary Tyler Moore was America’s sweetheart on her show. What will happen to our heroine as she faces a brain tumor? Mary Tyler Moore announced she has a meningioma, the most common type of primary brain...
View ArticleYounger People Are Heavier | Is Bigger Better?
Class reunions are awesome. It is a time to remember what we were like during a more innocent time. (I’m from the age of no cell phones, no internet, and no high fructose corn syrup.) It amazing to...
View ArticleSunscreens’ New Standards | Don’t get burned by your sunscreen
Screens are not a full-proof type of protective shield. A window screen doesn’t protect you from noseeums that make you look like you have measles (as I did after our Memorial Day BBQ)! A human...
View ArticleChantix Might Increase Heart Attacks | Holy Smokes!
Backfire! Have you ever done something for the “good of humanity,” only to have it backfire? A would-be mother-in-law thinks she’s helping with the wedding, but ends up making the future bride scream....
View ArticleGraves’ Disease | Making Missy Elliott Hip Hop Out of Her Eyes
Hip Hop star, Missy Elliott, and Mrs. Barbara Bush have something in common. No, it isn’t their jewelry because Missy Elliott doesn’t wear fake pearls all the time…if at all. No, Barbara Bush hasn’t...
View ArticleFast Food Restaurants and Food Stores | Do Americans Even Want to Eat Healthy...
McDonald’s was my place as a child: Happy Meals to apple turnovers that always scalded the roof of my mouth. When we first moved to Kenton, OH, there wasn’t a McDonald’s and I was an Unhappy-Meal...
View ArticleHospital Centers Hiring Primary Care Physicians | Days of Mom & Pop Medicine...
Board games like Sorry, Monopoly, and Life were my favorites growing up. I loved Life because the little spinny thing looked like the Wheel of Fortune, the cute little cars that we could eventually...
View ArticleIn Sickness & In Health | Why Do Men Leave Sick Women?
Laura Linney is an amazing actress. LOVE HER! Ok, now I adore her in The Big C. In the first season, she has malignant melanoma that has riddled her body…but she doesn’t tell anyone! She figures she...
View ArticlePoison Ivy | ITCHY!!!!
TV news was my thing. When I first appeared regularly on D.C. news, I thought I was “da bomb.” It was just a matter of time for someone else to drop a bomb on me. A couple of years later in...
View ArticleDrowning | Never Swim Alone!
Ariel, the Little Mermaid, would probably win every Olympic gold medal in swimming. She’d blow Michael Phelps out of the water. Oh, wait, that tail might disqualify her from competition. My cousin...
View ArticlePathologic skin picking | Have I Got a Bone (or Skin) to Pick With You!
Scratching posts are made for cats, but I think many humans would benefit from having one as well. Some people want to scratch out other people’s eyes (e.g. Nancy Grace–>Casey Anthony, gay...
View ArticlePills Pills Pills | Whose Got the Pill Box?
Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix–so many people have overdosed on drugs. In The Rose, Bette Midler’s character swallows pills like a hypoglycemic child in an M&M store, which...
View ArticleInterruptions | Your Doctor Is Running Late
“Popularity breeds contempt.” Boy George says that before he sings “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” I was never popular growing up in my hometown in Ohio, so I never got interrupted going to the...
View ArticleListeria | Cantaloupe Calamity
Cantaloupe for birthdays is so much better than a birthday cake. Trust me! It’s mouth-watering, crisp, sweet, vitamin-filled, and doesn’t add an extra inch to your waistline. I think a goal after the...
View ArticleGenital Warts | You Don’t Catch From A Toad
Surprises lurk around each corner. Some surprises are wonderful: flowers on your desk, an unexpected inheritance, Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul back together on The X Factor. Other surprises are not so...
View ArticleWeight Watchers |“Count” on Losing Weight
Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch is 87 years old and still at her target weight of 142 pounds. Eighty-seven and still thin! I joke with everyone that when I turn 70, I’m going to eat the entire...
View ArticleBody Odor |“CODE BROWN!”
Gyms smell like sweat, as they should! But most of us draw the line when people smell like old socks. Some folks don’t change their gym clothes for days- or weeks. I used to belong to a pretty nice gym...
View ArticleAthletic GI Problem | Running into Trouble
Pathetic– a good term to describe my my aerobic endurance. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve vomited or almost vomited from intense workouts. Once while playing tennis I lobbed the ball really...
View ArticleSIDS | Protect Your Baby
Babies are popping out of my friends like popcorn! Even my friends who swore they would never have children now own minivans filled with car seats complete with puke, toys, and diapers. When I was a...
View ArticlePradaxa | Will Coumadin Become Thin?
Blood is thicker than water, they say. Oh, really? What about those rich families who disown their children and leave them nothing? Zilch, Nada. Disowning children is a popular pastime among many...
View ArticleVocal Cord Nodes | The Sound of Silence
Adele is British? She doesn’t sing with an English accent. She sounds like she’s from Louisiana with a mint julep in one hand and a burning cigarette in the other. When I first heard about Adele from a...
View ArticleTooth Disease & Heart Disease | Nothing to Smile About
Austin Powers has the worst teeth. Mike Myers plays this shaggy English spy who is somehow a lady’s man. I don’t know why anyone would kiss someone with such bad teeth. I’d fear getting a yeast...
View ArticleCold and Flu Season 2011 | Bundle Up. It’s Going to be a Bumpy Winter
“It’s..be..ginning to look a lot like Christmas.” I’m a little weird about holiday songs. I don’t like to hear them every November and December, but I sing them January through October. When fireworks...
View ArticleStatins | A Pain in the Muscles?
Muscles on Taylor Lautner, Matthew McConaughey, and Hugh Jackman are hot. Muscles on ex-congressman Andrew Wiener and Senator Scott Brown are not. I used to power lift, until I hurt my rotator cuff at...
View ArticleBell’s Palsy | Nothing to Smile About
Audrey Hepburn in “Funny Face” was stunning in front of camera of her fashion photograph, Fred Astaire. She was most magnificent when she walked down the stairs in the Louve while holding a red scarf...
View ArticleAdults – EXERCISE! | Find Something You Love to Do
Silver in your hair, gold in your teeth, and lead in your buttocks–that is the “Metallic Age.” As a middle-aged man, I have gold in my teeth. Before I highlighted my hair blond, I didn’t have one...
View ArticleG-Spot (Grafenberg Spot)
Bulls-eye! Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games was a markswoman with a bow and arrow. Mess with her and you could get an arrow in the forehead. Eat your heart out, William Tell! But when it comes to a...
View ArticleFood Choking | The Heimlich maneuver isn’t a gag
Choking is a national past time. If you watch “Glee!” our heroine, Rachel, was destined to nail her audition into a NYC performing arts college. “GAG!” She choked. Michele Kwan, who is the best figure...
View ArticleCaffeine – Can it kill you?
Click to view video This article was written in 2006, but still — it’s a classic! LOL. So Mike and I on HLN discuss recent cardiac deaths that are linked to high caffeine drinks. Caffeine makes the...
View ArticleFlu Epidemic 2013
Flu!!! It is so amazing to see so many sick people coughing and sneezing on each other to spread the flu. Nicelle from Headline News and I talk about when an ER or doctor’s visit is needed vs. when to...
View ArticleFlu Epidemic Update | January 14, 2013
On HLN, Richelle and I catch up with each other to see how the flu epidemic of 2013 is going. So far, the flu has not flown…away. Lots of sick people.
View ArticleMumps
Mumps is caused by a virus that can lead to the classic cheek(s) swelling of the face. It has really been rare since vaccinations started in 1967. (1964: 212,000 reported cases. 2008: 454 reported...
View ArticleCancer: What is it?
We all know someone who has or has had cancer. For most people, the word, “Cancer,” is too scary to even say. So let’s talk about what does cancer mean. In 2030, #1 cause of death in USA is expected to...
View ArticleNorovirus: The Infamous GI Bug
http://youtu.be/tFnWYli3tck (click here for video) Norovirus is pretty well known cause of gastroenteritis (infection of the gut to cause vomiting and diarrhea) because of the news coverage on this...
View ArticleAnabolic Steroids and FB Beating Video | Nancy Grace Appearance
My first appearance on Prime Time. Thanks to Nancy Grace. I discussed the effects of anabolic steroids in the first segment. Because a WWE man died fairly young, Nancy questioned why so many WWE men...
View ArticleDog Attacks Girl and Mother fights back | Nancy Grace
On Nancy Grace, I discuss dog bites in little children. Unfortunately Mackenzie Camp was attacked and injured by a dog, and her mother saves her. I am a dog lover (Miss Moo Moo – our baby – would agree...
View ArticleTapeworms | Pageant Mom Reportedly Gave to her Daughter to Lose Weight
YouTube Link I believe Mrs. Baker, my 7th grade life science teacher, introduced me to tapeworms. If my memory serves me correctly, she said some “diet pills” had tapeworms. Ewww, what a way to lose...
View ArticleEbola
DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG On FOXdc, we discuss what concerns we should have about Ebola. The Ebola virus is here in the USA, and it is important to prevent it from becoming an epidemic. There have been...
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