Health and Fitness

Nearly 7 Billion people on the planet

Over 3 million doctors

Tens of thousands of hospitals

6000 prescription medicines, 4000 procedures and operations

Countless supplements, herbs, alternative treatments

Who gets what, when, where, why and how?

When a 58 year old, active, lean, intelligent financier from Florida came to see me for a second opinion, I should not have been surprised. For Valentines Day the prior year, his wifes present was a computed tomography (CT) scan for his heart. She heard about it on the radio and also saw heart scan billboards on the highway. There was even a special deal of $100 off for Valentines.

But her husband didnt have any symptoms of heart disease, didnt take any medications, and played at least two rounds of golf a week.

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Sports lovers and supporters of National Jewish Health will gather on the East Club Level at Sports Authority Field on Saturday for the ninth annual Hoops & Hoopla mens college basketball championship semifinal fundraising event presented by Greiner Electric. Proceeds from the event go to Kunsberg School, a free kindergarten through eighth grade school for chronically ill children on the National Jewish Health campus.

WHAT: Ninth annual Hoops & Hoopla presented by Greiner Electric

Attendees in their college gear watch the mens college basketball championship semifinal games on the Jumbotron on the field, an HDTV video wall and more than 35 TVs.

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Nowadays, nearly everyone knows that hand washing prevents the spread of germs, but in the early 19th century, that wasn’t necessarily accepted as an absolute fact.

“At that time, people really didn’t know what caused disease,” said Philip Scherer, M.D., a UF radiology resident.

Scherer, a UF College of Medicine graduate from the class of 2010, presented the lecture, “The Art of Hand Washing: The Legacy of Ignaz Semmelweis,” on March 15, as part of the monthly History of Medicine lecture series.

Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician from the 1800s who specialized in surgery and obstetrics/gynecology, is known today as the “savior of mothers.” He is credited for finding in 1847that the incidence of puerperal fever, which typically afflicted women who recently gave birth, could be drastically reduced by the use of hand-washing standards in obstetrical clinics.

He made this important discovery while working as an assistant at the Obstetrics/Gynecology Clinic at Vienna General Hospital and ultimately mandated that wash their hands with chlorinated lime. The rate of mort

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Is there a decrease in male sexual libido from using potassium nitrate in anti-sensitivity toothpaste, specifically “Colgate Sensitive Multiprotection”, which contains 5% potassium nitrate?

There are very low levels of potassium nitrate in any toothpaste. When you go on to consider that it is not ingested, but expectorated, there is almost none going into your system to affect libido.