So many recent studies – not to mention, that huge plethora of social media hypers – have been pushing yoga as a near cure-all for anything that ails you because, if you swallow the hype, yoga will help you relax, help you become more flexible, help you be more social, help you deal with pain, […]
Osteoporosis (OP) is often considered a woman’s disease because it is true that more women than men end up with OP. However, as men age, we also lose bone, and the problem for aging men with OP is that family docs often overlook that possibility in their aging male patients and since men don’t pay […]
Vitamin D supplements, the current darling of the supplement world, is likely a waste of time for people over the age of 70 worried about maintaining their bone health, despite the fact that this age-group is often strongly urged by their health care providers to take this supplement for their bone health. But according to […]
According to a study in JAMA Surgery, researchers reviewed several studies on post-operative pain and concluded that over 2/3 of post-surgery patients admitted to having unused narcotics at home that had been prescribed for their surgery, that they had used on average only about half the narcotic pills they had been prescribed (and since that’s […]