Sleep and Health Journal

Andrea Thompson
LiveScience Staff Writer

Whether we’re looking for someone to date or sizing up a potential rival, our eyes irresistibly lock on to good-looking people, a new study finds.

The physician is only nature’s assistant /Galen
Never go to one whose office plants look sick /Smallwood
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, nor a business /Osler
No man is more worthy of esteem than a physician who exercises his art with caution and gives equal attention to the rich and the poor /Voltaire
Some people think doctors can put scrambled eggs back into the shell /Campbell

Real Life Story
I Never Sleep but I Feel Good (Insomnia due to fear of death in sleep)

Zaler Alexander, M.D.
A 75- year-old woman came to our sleep center stating that “I do not sleep but I feel good. Just great.” She is active all day long and denies fatigue.

You will experience a sharper mind and improve your cognitive skills for three hours if you eat good quality dark chocolate from cocoa, according to Dr. Ian Macdonald, PhD., Professor of Metabolic Physiology at University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. His research was presented in 2007 at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Spirituality and Medicine

By Alexander Golbin, MD, PhD.

Spiritual Healing and traditional scientific medicine long have been considered to be bitter enemies. The history of this polarization has roots in the opposition of religion and science in the 18th Century. To the current generation of physicians and clerics, this polarization seems to be as archaic as many other parts of the past history of human civilization.

Medical Tourism: The Latest Outsourcing Industry

By Louis Keith, MD, PhD

Last week, I completed an article with a colleague, Dr. Christopher Jones, which was accepted for publication in an international medical journal. Its title, “Medical Tourism and Reproductive Outsourcing: Dawning of a New Age”, highlights a phenomenon that readers will undoubtedly hear more about in the near future. Simply stated, the term “medical tourism” characterizes the mechanisms by which patients obtain medical care in an area of the world where they do not reside. Thus, the genesis of this article, with grateful thanks to Dr. Jones for his stimulus.

For many of us, talk about global warming was an abstract topic not related to our personal life, except a shortened ski season and the recent Oscar when Hollywood became green. Even in the US Congress the issue of the global warming was not considered terribly important comparing to Iraq, Iran, oil prices and all of the industries running abroad.

By Louis Keith, MD, PhD

As readers may already know from these columns, I travel the world and am not afraid to share the impressions gained on my travels. Today is no exception, as I have just returned from London, where, on the morning of my departure (February 28, 2007), I looked at the headlines of “The Times,” probably one of the most respected papers in the United Kingdom if not the world, and was surprised to see the following headline: “Medical Backlash Over Health Foods.” I quickly turned to the page containing the actual reports and was confronted with another banner. This time, the news was “Health Food and Vitamin Pills are ‘Bad’ for You.” If this were true, it would be news indeed, but, as became clear when the article itself was read, it was not news but a high grade form of what used to be called “yellow journalism” in days before World War II. By this is meant, in simple terms, “smear tactics.”

Somewhere, we know,
there are armies,

those who mean us
harm.

Yet, as we step
together into this country shelter,

your hand is warm. I
cannot see your face,

This month we will inaugurate a new section on poetry, those words by which we may all reflect on the world around us. Poetry is one of the oldest uses of language, and examples are still with us from ancient Greece and Rome, as well as many other cultures, old and new. Its translation is often exceedingly difficult, and many translators become famous for their efforts. Our poem this month gives us a pause to reflect on the world around us.