Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category

Tomorrow is the busiest day of the week

Posted on December 24th, 2009 in Health Care | Comments Off

Wherever you go on the internet, whichever newspapers and magazines you open, there’s a familiar marketing message. Apparently, it’s easy to lose those unwanted pounds. Yeah, right. The marketers target our insecurities. They show us “before” and “after” pictures and suggest we too can become an “after” person if we buy their product. “Just spend your dollars with us,” they wheedle, “and we’ll heal your pain.” There are a mass of interesting assumptions in all these ads. It seems almost everyone is a target. We all want to shed pounds. That means we must all be unhappy with our current body shape. We must feel uncomfortable, perhaps even the victim of discrimination. Perhaps the health message is getting through and we begin to feel real fear of blocked-up arteries, high blood pressure and heart disease. Whatever the reason, the advertizers scent blood in the water and they are circling round our purses and wallets ready to sink their teeth into our dollars and disappear without delivering on all their promises. Read the rest of this entry »

What is impotence?

Posted on December 16th, 2009 in Health Care | Comments Off

The mechanism of male erection is so sophisticated and complex that there’s no big surprise that sometimes it goes not as good as you’d wish to. Still, having problems with getting and keeping a good hard erection form time to time is nothing to worry about, because it happens to all men, and it’s not impotence. A cause for concern is the situation when a man is having problems with erection in more than 25% of cases – that is what doctors start to call erectile dysfunction. ED can have various degrees of severity, ranging from ongoing problems with keeping the erection, early ejaculation to being completely unable to get an erection at all. But what is more important is that erectile dysfunction can have various causes, and by knowing which one has influenced impotence in every particular case is the key to treating the condition. Read the rest of this entry »