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Having trouble getting over your ex? When my first wife ran off with another guy, I was pretty beat up. This was after thirty  years of being married. It seemed like life had come to an end. I didn’t expect to get another relationship. Friends all gathered round with advice. The best I got, though […]

Having trouble getting over your ex? When my first wife ran off with another guy, I was pretty beat up. This was after thirty  years of being married. It seemed like life had come to an end. I didn’t expect to get another relationship. Friends all gathered round with advice. The best I got, though […] The post How to get over your ex appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.” Actually, “throat cancer” isn’t a medical term. Several different kinds of cancer can involve different parts of the throat and mouth. Michael Douglas says he has a walnut-sized tumor at the base of his tongue. That’s an oropharyngeal cancer. Why do people get it? Well, as I have said on my other sites, half of us will get some kind of cancer. He just got this one. But the known risk factors are smoking and drinking – not so much separately but bad when both come together. However doctors are seeing a sudden general rise in oropharyngeal cases. Not all smoke and drink. Some victims do neither. Why?

Actor Michael Douglas last night stunned a television audience with the announcement that he has “late stage IV throat cancer.” Actually, “throat cancer” isn’t a medical term. Several different kinds of cancer can involve different parts of the throat and mouth. Michael Douglas says he has a walnut-sized tumor at the base of his tongue. That’s an oropharyngeal cancer. Why do people get it? Well, as I have said on my other sites, half of us will get some kind of cancer. He just got this one. But the known risk factors are smoking and drinking – not so much separately but bad when both come together. However doctors are seeing a sudden general rise in oropharyngeal cases. Not all smoke and drink. Some victims do neither. Why?

Fortunately, most of my readers are of an age where we never went in for those body piercings: nipple rings, foreskin and all sorts of other unmentionables in polite society. I especially can’t stand the sight of weird metal things in the tongue, lips and over the eyes. For one thing, I’ve never seen anyone […]

Fortunately, most of my readers are of an age where we never went in for those body piercings: nipple rings, foreskin and all sorts of other unmentionables in polite society. I especially can’t stand the sight of weird metal things in the tongue, lips and over the eyes. For one thing, I’ve never seen anyone […] The post nipple rings and breast abscesses appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

In my comprehensive eBook on cancer alternatives (Cancer Confidential), I addressed the question of whether prayer works for healing. In medicine, we see the touch of God all the time, but it is called “spontaneous remission.” If it happens at a prayer meeting, then God gets the credit! Otherwise it is just said to be one of those inexplicable marvels of the human body. Is there any science that tells us whether prayer is working or not? You bet! Dr. Randolph Byrd, a Christian cardiologist, conducted a study in 1984 that has led to a resurgence of scientific evaluation of the effect of prayer on healing.

In my comprehensive eBook on cancer alternatives (Cancer Confidential), I addressed the question of whether prayer works for healing. In medicine, we see the touch of God all the time, but it is called “spontaneous remission.” If it happens at a prayer meeting, then God gets the credit! Otherwise it is just said to be one of those inexplicable marvels of the human body. Is there any science that tells us whether prayer is working or not? You bet! Dr. Randolph Byrd, a Christian cardiologist, conducted a study in 1984 that has led to a resurgence of scientific evaluation of the effect of prayer on healing.

Is that a freedom or an entitlement? People who overeat and are obese should contribute to the inevitable extra healthcare costs, according to certain German politicians. Naturally, there is an outcry, mostly from the opposition who would attack anything on principle. But emotions run high and comparisons with Hitler’s Nazi socialist principles have been used. […]

Is that a freedom or an entitlement? People who overeat and are obese should contribute to the inevitable extra healthcare costs, according to certain German politicians. Naturally, there is an outcry, mostly from the opposition who would attack anything on principle. But emotions run high and comparisons with Hitler’s Nazi socialist principles have been used. […] The post Are People Free To Wreck Themselves And We Should Pay The Price? appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Paralyzed and cannot speak or move. What would you do? Locked-In Syndrome I recently read an amazing book: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly by Jean-Dominic Bauby. It is very moving indeed. Bauby was the Editor-In-Chief at Elle, the fashion  magazine in Paris, France. He was witty, rich, sought after by women, worldly and handsome. He had it all. Then, at the age of 42, he had a devastating brain stem stroke which left him totally paralyzed, unable to speak and move, yet fully conscious. We call this “locked-in syndrome”; the person is there, fully aware, but is unable to move and can’t communicate normally. [here’s the film trailer from YouTube]: It is a quite horrifying end for anyone but especially for Bauby, an intellectual and a socialite. There was just one saving grace. Fate left him with the ability to blink his left eye. Pretty soon he was using this to communicate. He gained a kind of a life.

Paralyzed and cannot speak or move. What would you do? Locked-In Syndrome I recently read an amazing book: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly by Jean-Dominic Bauby. It is very moving indeed. Bauby was the Editor-In-Chief at Elle, the fashion  magazine in Paris, France. He was witty, rich, sought after by women, worldly and handsome. He had it all. Then, at the age of 42, he had a devastating brain stem stroke which left him totally paralyzed, unable to speak and move, yet fully conscious. We call this “locked-in syndrome”; the person is there, fully aware, but is unable to move and can’t communicate normally. [here’s the film trailer from YouTube]: It is a quite horrifying end for anyone but especially for Bauby, an intellectual and a socialite. There was just one saving grace. Fate left him with the ability to blink his left eye. Pretty soon he was using this to communicate. He gained a kind of a life.