Tag Archive | geriatrics
A Healthy Sex Life After a Heart Attack
by Tiffani Washington Whether it’s from a movie, celebrity hearsay or some other largely fictional account, most of us can recall a tale of someone experiencing a heart attack in the throes of passion. In reality, only about 1 percent of all heart attacks occur during sex, and far less than 1 percent of heart […]
Treating Pain on a Social Scale
By Matt Wood We hear a lot these days about online social networks, but the size and strength of a person’s real-life social network has major consequences for his or her health and quality of life. Studies have shown a statistical link between social interaction and mortality, and research has linked loneliness to a range […]
Podcast Episode 0.2: Stretching, Whipple at 90, NIH Cuts
Welcome to pilot episode 2 of our Medical Center research news podcast. We’re keeping the water wings on for now as we continue to refine the format and discover all the technical struggles inherent in podcasting, but please do listen and give us feedback on how we’re doing – and if you have good ideas […]
Sex and the Female Cancer Survivor
By Dianna Douglas If your oncologist is worried about your sex life, you’re probably a man. Stacy Lindau, associate professor of obstetrics/gynecology and geriatrics, has been researching how often women get help for sexual problems after surviving cancer, and the data are grim. Almost none of the women in her study got treatment, and half […]
A New Field of Geriatric Oncology, Under Construction
Creating a new research field doesn’t happen overnight. It requires bringing together like-minded researchers willing to push out into the unknown, funding agencies willing to be convinced that the new field is worth of grant dollars, and some semblance of an overall plan so that those efforts and dollars are put to optimal use. Soldering […]
Love in the Time of Diabetes
A diagnosis of diabetes brings with it a plethora of lifestyle changes. Patients must switch up their diet and exercise habits, take on a new routine of daily medications and injections, and keep an eye on their blood sugar. But another potential change under the cloud of diabetes is even more personal: the diabetic’s sex […]
The Other African AIDS Orphans
The World Cup in South Africa has rightly given the people of the continent reason to celebrate and show off their ability to host an international party. But there remain severe political, economic, and health problems in Africa that a month-long soccer tournament can do little to repair. A primary concern is the epidemic of […]
Stretching Out Your Sex Life
No, the blog has not been hijacked by spammers. Radio silence was necessary yesterday as a I fielded media calls for a new study in the British Medical Journal on the eyebrow-raising subject of “sexually active life expectancy.” Stacy Tessler Lindau, associate professor of obstetrics/gynecology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and Natalia Gavrilova, […]
