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Monday, January 25th, 2010By Ramon P. Llamas, MPH
Health reform has been a topic of great importance here in Washington for the past few months since discussions and debates have intensified in June, 2009. Health reform, however, has primarily focused on one aspect of health – health care. In the broader sense, though, health encompasses a wider reach. [...]
Head Injuries in the NFL and Beyond
Monday, December 14th, 2009Head Injuries in the NFL and Beyond
by Adam Dougherty, MPH
There are few things more satisfying than watching a rival quarterback receive a blind-side sack or seeing your team’s DB lay out a receiver on an incomplete pass in slow-mo. Of course, this is only true as long as the recipient is able to get up [...]
APHA LIVE UPDATE BLOG
Monday, November 9th, 200912:33 pm – Monday, November 9, 2009
This is an exciting time for men’s health! At this point, day two of the APHA conference, we have met a handful of new researchers in the field of men’s health. Innovative community-based interventions are being developed with the potential to reach an extremely underserved subgroup of the population. For [...]
No, It’s Not Seasonal Affective Disorder if it Happens Every Season
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009By Luke Manley
With summer rapidly drawing to a close, I pose a riddle, particularly relevant, as the days get cooler and daylight dwindles. When are competitiveness and ambition not competitiveness and ambition? When they’re depression. Okay, so it’s not much of a riddle, but as it turns out neither is the reason why 24,000 [...]
All about the numbers by Ramon Llamas
Monday, July 27th, 2009All about the numbers
By Ramon Llamas
For a majority of men, it is all about the numbers especially sports fans. They can recite statistics of their favorite teams and players without hesitation: Lebron James, the 2009 NBA regular season MVP averaged 28 points, 7 assists and 7 rebounds last year; the Los [...]
Monday Fresh Start: Where Can You Find Useful Nutrition Information? By Jennifer Jackson, MPH
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Monday Fresh Start
Where Can You Find Useful Nutrition Information?
By Jennifer Jackson, MPH
I always think that Mondays are the perfect day to start or learn something new. We’ve hit the reset button while out of the office over the weekend and Monday presents a chance to start fresh. Not only that, but researchers suggest that [...]
Forget GM, Where’s the Bailout for Our Moral Bankruptcy? By Luke Manley
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Title: Forget GM, Where’s the Bailout for Our Moral Bankruptcy?
By Luke Manley
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It’s a unique phenomenon of perception that causes us to be de-sensitized to small changes that occur over long periods of time. We’ve all fallen victim to this at some point in our lives. The extra slice of [...]
Return the Flavor to our Fathers
Monday, June 15th, 2009In light to President Obama’s speech today at AMA in Chicago, prevention seems to be the main thing I took away from listening to his speech. Of course, there were words directed to those doctors who haven’t been helping out to our frail health care by “tycoon-ing” the industry for profits, but preventive health [...]
Personal Responsibility
Monday, June 8th, 2009I just started reading a book titled “The Accidental Asian,” by Eric Liu, a former speechwriter for President Clinton. The first few chapters, dedicated to his late father, described poignant memories he carries with him. One memory was particularly captivating. Liu described his late father’s bout with kidney failure and their family’s struggle to keep [...]
National Men’s Health Policy
Monday, November 12th, 2007Why we need National Male Health Policy
Bernard Denner… Health Educator/Men’s Health Advocate Centre for Advancement of Men’s Health (CAMH)
Male Health requires the structure of a Government National Male Health Policy because National Mortality and Morbidity Rate of males in countries across the globe demonstrate a rate of premature death amongst men that is unacceptable but [...]