September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
September marks Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and is a time for families to learn more about this potentially deadly disease. Prostate cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer among men. In addition, the disease is one of leading killers of men. According to the American Cancer Society about 180,890 American men will... CONTINUE READING→
Help Us Spread the Word about Child Passenger Safety Week
Did you know that every 33 seconds a child under 13 is involved in a car crash in the United States? That can be a pretty scary thought—and will probably (hopefully) get you thinking about making sure your child is safely snuggled into a car seat every time you head out to school, the grocery... CONTINUE READING→
Do We Have Vaccination Amnesia?
It is natural to dismiss dangers that are rarely seen. That has become our present circumstance with respect to many devastating infectious diseases. Since medicine has made significant progress against its former greatest adversaries, complacent beliefs have flourished. Surprisingly, a new malady has arisen and we are now suffering from a growing amnesia regarding the... CONTINUE READING→
How US Hospitals Are Fighting Zika
Apart from several incidents involving crime (including some crimes that never actually happened), violence, and some green-colored pools, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro went off pretty much without a hitch. But in the back of everyone’s mind–and at the forefront of the media’s, even now that the Olympics are over–is the Zika... CONTINUE READING→
The Male Infertility Gauntlet: Less is More
“Less is more.” Is there a better description for the modernist architectural style of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe? His Barcelona Pavilion is one of the world’s most exquisite examples of architecture as sculpture, akin to the Parthenon in Greece, or the Pantheon in Rome. It simply works. It also reminds us of how complex “less”... CONTINUE READING→
Hats off to Adults Who Earn Their High School Diploma
Did you know that more than 29 million Americans don’t have a high school diploma. Why? Well, each person’s story is different: there are the young mothers and fathers who opted to support their family over school, kids who were forced to choose putting food on the table for their family over school, and even... CONTINUE READING→
Raise Your Glass to the Health Benefits of Beer
Scientists have found that moderate beer drinking is associated with a number of very positive health outcomes. But the key word here is moderate, which we’re defining as one or two beers per day for men and one for women. Much more than that and you’ll increase your risk of developing the same conditions that... CONTINUE READING→
Getting Informed, Staying Involved
While some campfire stories are scary, I hope mine had the opposite effect. In 2001, I spent over three months biking across the country to raise awareness about prostate cancer. My wife was my support team, following in a car while I pedaled along. In the evenings, we’d stay at campgrounds, letting people know about... CONTINUE READING→
Preventing Fires: It’s Up to Us
Unless you’re living completely off the grid (and if you were, you wouldn’t be reading this), you’ve heard about the recent fires that have destroyed hundreds of homes and taken far too many lives. For more than 70 years, Smokey Bear has been telling us about how to prevent forest fires. Clearly we need to be... CONTINUE READING→
Men, Maybe Being The Breadwinner Is Not a Good Thing
Gendered expectations in marriage are not just bad for women, they are also bad for men, according to a new study by University of Connecticut (UConn) sociologists. Using data on the same nationally representative group of married men and women over 15 years, the authors examined the relationship between men’s and women’s relative income contributions... CONTINUE READING→