Father’s Day – Spinning the lens on stress in a man’s life
In my psychotherapy practice, I find that my men patients tend to report less stress and put less emphasis on the need to manage it than women. This has been confirmed in the results of a recent survey...
View ArticleSuccess in the Treatment of Depression
As we know only too well, in the spate of recent events, mental illness is prevalent in all groups of society, in this country and in the world. What we may not all know is that many of these illnesses...
View ArticleStart the School Year Right
Advice for Parents on Helping Children Manage Stress in Upcoming School Year As summer draws to an end, many families are beginning to prepare for the upcoming school year. The New Jersey...
View ArticleIs Overweight the New Normal?
In today’s world, it is a stunning reality: our new “normal” is to be overweight. Thirty percent of people living in the United States are considered severely overweight, and an additional 30 percent...
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Laurie’s Shout Out to Komen Supporters!
My dear friends, family, and supporters, It was an absolutely stunning springtime day as we breast cancer survivors marched out onto the podium looking out at the sea of over five thousand supporters....
View ArticleBlack – White Divide Persists in Breast Cancer
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania reported that black women live three years less than white women affected with breast cancer. Tara Parker-Pope writes in her New York Times “Well” blog,...
View ArticleGenomic Testing: Foraging Through Evolving Medical Treatment
Practicing medicine today is not like it was 30 years ago. Actually, it is not the same as it was 10 years ago. Technology is improving fast – and with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in...
View ArticleIntegrative Medicine – Getting to the Root of the Issue
As a physician I was trained to fix medical problems after they occurred. Like most physicians trained in Western Medicine I was excellent at diagnosing problems and prescribing drugs and surgery as a...
View ArticleIrritable Bowel Syndrome – the Wastebasket Diagnosis
It is one of those topics that is probably least discussed, because it is such an embarrassing issue and is considered “taboo” to talk about in social situations – chronic, diarrhea-predominant...
View ArticleBuyer Beware
Last month’s New York Times article about Christopher Herrera’s liver injury continues to serve as a cautionary tale to teens and parents. Dr. Alycia Leiby, Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition,...
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