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March 3, 2010

Why is optimism is associated with health, pessimism with disease?

So, be honest: Is you life glass half-full or half-empty? I tend to be the former, and based upon the research I’m glad I have a […]

March 3, 2010

Could being bored be bad for your health?

Can you really be bored to death? According to a report in USA Today, in a commentary to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in […]

March 3, 2010

Like happiness, loneliness is contagious

Loneliness, like happiness, can be contagious, says recent research showing how feeling lonely can make others lonely, too. Below are the details from a report in […]

March 2, 2010

Celiac disease seen as being vastly underdiagnosed

Do you have chronic abdominal symptoms that have never been diagnosed? Or, have you self-diagnosed your recurrent abdominal pain as lactose intolerance or irritable bowel syndrome? […]

March 2, 2010

If you think you’re lactose intolerant you may be wrong

Do you think you are lactose intolerant? Think again — at least according to a draft consensus statement a panel of experts at the National Institutes […]

February 24, 2010

Senate report links Avandia to increased risk of heart attacks, death. What am I telling my Avandia patients to do?

In a front-page story, the New York Times reported, “Hundreds of people taking Avandia [rosiglitazone], a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each […]

February 24, 2010

Osteopathic care may ease late-pregnancy back pain

Low back pain in pregnancy is extremely common and manipulative therapy has been shown in a number of studies to be very helpful — especially for […]

January 15, 2020

Good Desires

I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, […]

January 14, 2020

Bad Desires – 2

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, […]

January 14, 2020

Bad Desires – 1

The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the unfaithful are trapped by evil desires.

January 13, 2020

The New Heart – 6

But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) “or […]

January 13, 2020

The Old Heart – 6

And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. For the pagan world runs after all such […]

January 12, 2020

The New Heart – 5

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all […]