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Apr 6, 2023
What You (Everyone) Needs To Know About Long COVID
If you turn to part 2 of my new book Virus Blitz! you’ll see that I have written a good deal about post-viral fatigue syndrome (PVFS), also sometimes called ME, and fibromyalgia (often confused with Lyme disease). In that section I made a great issue out of the fact that—40 years ago—I was seeing people […]
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Jun 1, 2021
Can We Please Stop Shooting Mentally Ill Patients?
This was a cold—indeed bloodcurdling—headline in a medical journal, by a lady called Christine M. Sarteschi, PhD, LCSW. She’s an associate professor of social work and criminology at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and I start with her words… Historically, it was common for people with mental illness to be incarcerated, tortured, even killed. I wrote […]
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Jul 29, 2011
Gonorrhea back on the rampage
Those of us who are older are less likely than the kids to screw around today, let’s face it. Constancy has several rewards but health safety is not the least of them. You can DIE from casual sex encounters!
Trouble is, many STDs are getting antibiotic resistant. There’s a strain of deadly, untreatable syphilis out there. That’s bad news. Now gonorrhea. True, gonorrhea isn’t likely to kill you—but it does make a mess of the plumbing and tackle “down there”.
The CDC is warning that gonorrhea is growing resistant to all known antibiotic. The same is true in the rest of the developed world. We could be back in the dark ages soon, as far as STDs are concerned.
Jul 29, 2011
Gonorrhea back on the rampage
Those of us who are older are less likely than the kids to screw around today, let’s face it. Constancy has several rewards but health safety is not the least of them. You can DIE from casual sex encounters!
Trouble is, many STDs are getting antibiotic resistant. There’s a strain of deadly, untreatable syphilis out there. That’s bad news. Now gonorrhea. True, gonorrhea isn’t likely to kill you—but it does make a mess of the plumbing and tackle “down there”.
The CDC is warning that gonorrhea is growing resistant to all known antibiotic. The same is true in the rest of the developed world. We could be back in the dark ages soon, as far as STDs are concerned.