Treatment Because it is impossible to determine clinically whether the infection is due to bacteria or a virus, all ear infections are treated with a course of antibiotics. This may be a 5-day course, though sometimes the doctor will prescribe medications for 10 days to ensure that the infection has cleared up. Various antibiotics can [...]

If you develop diabetes during your pregnancy, you have what is called gestational diabetes. This usually becomes evident through routine testing of the urine for sugar, which is done at regular intervals during your antenatal care. Some women are known diabetics before they become pregnant. In either case extra precautions need to be taken to [...]

“It takes me forever to climax. I get close, then fade away. Get close again, then fade away. After a few times of that, then I don’t get close. I just fade away. How could I climax sooner so my poor husband doesn’t have to work so hard and hold back so long? ANSWER: Probably [...]

In hysteria, no pain is felt, at least at a conscious level. Hysteria may occur in children or mentally healthy people suddenly exposed to intolerable strain, such as a war or some natural disaster. It is more common in those who have the typical hysterical personality. These are immature and inadequate and seem to have [...]

There has always been an alternative to seeing a proper doctor. Alternative therapies are now becoming well known and respectable. It may not be too long before the practitioners of these systems and their patients are demanding access to beds in general hospitals or even setting up hospitals for the exclusive practice of alternative medicine. [...]

The use of visualisation techniques has played a part in treating disease from early times and in therapies from all over the world. The technique has been ‘rediscovered’ in recent times and is often used in conjunction with a number of other therapies to aid the natural healing process as well as to create a [...]

Manganese is perhaps no less important than calcium for maintaining the strength of the bones, according to Science News (130:199). In fact, that journal reports, the only abnormality consistently found in the blood of a group of women with osteoporosis was an extremely low level of manganese. Furthermore, a young basketball superstar who was constantly [...]

Pain, ache, or throbbing in any area of the head are obvious signs of a headache. The type of headache experienced depends somewhat on the cause of the headache. Some clues to the cause are the location of the pain, how long pain lasts, the time of day at which it occurs, the circumstances leading [...]

It’s All the Rage You know that jackass who insists on driving about 10 miles per hour below the speed limit? The one who inspires Walter Mitty fantasies of you piloting a monster truck, crushing his little Volkswagen like the bug it is? Well, while Sunday drivers have always been a little frustrating, these days [...]

It’s the third group, called stress handlers, who seem instinctively to know how to deal with stress. As a moderator at the Second International Symposium on the Management on Stress, in 1979, I introduced a man who summed up the stress handler’s approach, saying, “Don’t sweat the little things. And just about everything in life [...]