Birth Control, General Health, Sexuality
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...
Diabetes
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.
Birth Control, General Health, Painful Sex, Sexuality, Vaginal Dryness
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...
Diet & Nutrition, General Health, Menopause, osteoporosis, Premature Menopause
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,...
Bioidentical Estrogens, Bladder Control, Early Menopause, Estriol, Estrogens, General Health, Hormones, Painful Sex, Premature Menopause, Sexuality, Vaginal Dryness
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...
Depression, Exercise, General Health, healthy eating, Mental Health, Omega-3, Weight Control
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...
Bioidentical Estrogens, Breast Cancer, Estrogens, Hormones, Premature Menopause, Vaginal Dryness
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,...
Depression, General Health, Menopause, Mental Health
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...
Cancer, Diet & Nutrition, General Health, Health Song, Menopause, Music and Medicine, Music Composer
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...
Diet & Nutrition, Estrogens, General Health, healthy eating, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, perimenopause, Stroke
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...
