I was recently asked to write a blog post for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Blog about a recent grant I was awarded together with a company called Condax. The grant explores the development of a new female condom that has the potential to enhance female sexual pleasure and support male erections as well …
Hope you enjoyed Father’s Day. I’d like to share a song I wrote about the meaning of the day. It’s called My Old Man.
HealthRock® Media Contact: Info@HealthRock.com HealthRock, LLC Receives Grand Challenges Explorations Grant For Groundbreaking Research in Global Health and Development Newton, MA – HealthRock LLC announced today that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Mache Seibel, MD will pursue an innovative global health and …
Fact: More than half of all bone fractures are in people with osteopenia rather than osteoporosis. May is National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month and the perfect time to bone up on your potential fracture risk. If you haven’t heard of FRAX, it stands for Fracture Risk Assessment Tool. It was developed by the …
For women in menopause, narrowing and thinning of the vaginal tissues and vaginal dryness, a condition called vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) is one of the most common symptoms. Though it affects over half of women, only 7% are treated and many are unaware that effective treatments are available. Typical symptoms are vaginal dryness that can lead …
A studyof 8,964 Spanish adults found that frequent fast food eaters were 40% more likely to develop depression than those who avoid burgers, pizza, and similar fast foods. This comes after another study showing a positive dose/response relationship between the amount of trans fat eaten and the risk for depression. In the same study, olive …
For millions of women, Premarin® was a household name. Before the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) was published in 2002, Premarin was one of the most widely used medications in the world. But after the WHI suggested that it caused an increase in breast cancer, blood clots, stroke and heart attacks, sales dropped and the medication …
Passover is the story of the Hebrew’s exodus from the bonds of 400 years of slavery to freedom as a Jewish people. Although today there is no slavery and no Pharaoh, bondage remains a metaphor for relinquishing your freedom to the bondage of life. Modern day bondage takes many forms: food addiction, unhappy relationships, workaholism, …
You wouldn’t think the World Series and colonoscopy had anything to do with each other. But for me it did. When my doctor suggested I have a colonoscopy, I said I’d do it when the Red Sox won the World Series. At the time, they hadn’t done it in 86 years and I thought I …
Every year about 715,000 Americans have heart attack. In fact, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, and for the first time, more women are dying of heart disease than men. Having a heart attack can have a very major affect on your life …
