Has this ever happened to you? … You’re lying in bed and trying to fall asleep when you feel a sudden thunk in your chest. Maybe you sense that your heart is skipping a beat and then giving you a little kick afterwards. This could happen on and off for minutes....
Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia … Rambo comes face to face with an Indochinese Tiger. A vicious battle ensues, with Rambo finally strangling the beast with his bare hands. Afterwards, he notices a long deep gash in his shoulder. Using some old fishing line...
In 1955 just one artist, Elvis Presley … had five of the Billboard top 15 songs, including top of the chart “Heartbreak Hotel.” Better yet, 1955 was the beginning of the end for measles in the United States. That year, 3–4 million people, mostly children,...
“Doctor, my immune system is so weak… I’ve caught every cold and flu this year. I’ve been sick constantly for three months and I can’t get well. Can you work up my immunity? Is there anything I can take to protect me against all these infections?” Every winter,...
In many medical offices, patients have to starve themselves … for eight to twelve hours prior to getting annual labs drawn. But does this make any sense? As patients know, I urge plenty of skepticism when it comes to recommendations that a doctor might make....
The next time you’re in a doctor’s office…and someone wraps a cuff around your arm to check your blood pressure, you’ll have to thank a nice Jewish doctor named Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch. He called his device a sphygmomanometer,...
