In the good old, bad old days before television, the world was a simpler place for parents. They could more easily control the flow of information to their children and, as a result, everyone grew up more innocent. Today, it’s almost impossible for parents to prevent their children from learning all about the world through the programs they watch and the adverts that appear every ten minutes. It can be quite a revelation for parents to watch some of the cartoon series offered to the young. There is a remarkably adult sensibility running through many of them, introducing some very sophisticated...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) During its development phase, the manufacturer intended the drug to be used to treat PAH and angina. If the arteries in the chest contract or are blocked, this can cause pain and, if not treated, increases blood pressure and can cause a stroke or heart attack. Viagra is a phosphodiesterase (PDE5) inhibitor. PDE is a chemical messenger found in different parts of the body. It tells an artery to contract. By inhibiting it, arteries dilate. This reduces blood pressure and allows blockages to clear. Testing PDE5, the research staff found men reporting improved...

Everywhere you look, there are more and more stories about the risks to the health of overweight people. It has not yet begun to match the continuous assaults by the Surgeon General on smoking (have you seen some of those pictures of people with cancer? - gross). But you know that the more weight you carry the greater the risks of diabetes, high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks. Unfortunately, these drum beats have lost their power to drive us to fight in the war against those pounds. We have all heard it before, tried the “I’m dieting” T-shirt on for size, and yo-yoed...

In some darker corners on the spectrum of sexual behavior comes the world of BDSM where, depending on the participants’ particular hard-wired responses, the notions of dominance and submission are used to stimulate sexual response. Obviously, the detail of the roles can be very different, but the essence remains the same - to encourage a sexual response by playing with bondage and the infliction of pain both physical and emotional. There are some who engage in what, in other circumstances, might be considered torture. The law remains deeply ambiguous about whether such behavior should be...

For the past few years drugs like Xanax, Zyban, Alprazolam have really taken over. They are very popular with the younger generation, such as school students, college boys and girls. It always makes sense not to worry and save yourself from any type of stress but pills are not the best way to stop yourself from getting nervous and feeling depressed. Houston’s 13 year old middle school student was arrested for bringing Xanax to school as some of the classmates were sent to hospital for Xanax overdose. Here are some of the reasons for teenage usage of Xanax without a prescription: Relaxed...

Confidence is a strange thing. It lives somewhere deep in the woods of all our fears and insecurities, and only emerges when we are absolutely certain everything is going to be alright. So, when it comes to the idea of surgery, where some surgeon is going to be standing over us with his or her arms inside our bodies with a saw, most of us prefer total unconsciousness from well before the operation until well after it. No-one in the West would accept the practice of acupuncture where, with several needles sticking in our head, we are able to chat with the surgeon about the latest episode of “Lost”....

In theory, any person charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proved guilty. But, when it comes to substances, people are always prepared to think the worst and never let the facts get in the way of a really good urban myth. For more than a century or two, the world has been fixated with the idea that saltpeter can be used to induce impotence in men. For those of you with an interest in the scientific side of life, saltpeter is better known as potassium nitrate and, for many decades, rumor had it that this dreaded substance was craftily slipped into the food of prison inmates, those lucky...

One of the results of the recession has been to reinforce the tendency to opt for term insurance as the first life policy. With the disappearance of credit and the pressure on employment, people have decide to switch to prudence. That means paying down the debts and cutting back on discretionary spending. Is this financial puritanism sensible? There are a number of factors to consider. First, a definition. A term policy is life coverage for a fixed number of years. Think of it as like a bet. If you are still alive at the end of the term, the insurance keeps all the premiums, and you and your dependents...

When we say “have a wonderful night” to some couples we surely do not mean for them to fall asleep right after they jumped into the bed. We wish them to have a loving night full of pleasant moments for both of them. Little do we know we say it. Some might get hurt by these words as they know for sure there won’t be anything pleasant in their night. Men are very vulnerable when it comes to the sex subject. Of course, we don’t mean all men but when a problem is there letting everybody know it exits, men get sensible. There are plenty of reasons for men to experience complexes...

Drugs are made in such a way that the patient feels they are useful, profitable and safe. When it comes to creation of a drug, we must say the process is very difficult. It takes years to produce a drug that would actually help and be effective. Most manufacturers want their medicine to cover all the investments therefore they need to be given a patent protection. This is what FDA usually requires. The patent protection grants you the promise of no other similar drug or the copy of this medication for several years as indicated in the agreement. This is a good possibility for the trademark to become...