On May 20th's Show - Dr. Frank Vogel, interventional radiologist, describes uterine fibroid embolization, or UFE, a procedure that treats symptomatic fibroids and is a welcome non-surgical, uterus-sparing option to a hysterectomy. Paul Phillips, MD, board certified in adult and pediatric rheumatology, discusses arthritis and the revolutionary medications that have changed the treatment of this debilitating disease and improved the lives of millions.
For more information on uterine fibroid embolization procedures at University Hospital, contact Dr. Vogel at 315.464.8035.
For more information on the Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinic at University Hospital: www.upstate.edu/uh/peds/programs/juvenile
Health Information Center Resources for
Uterine Fibroids:
Book:
Fibroids: The Complete Guide to Taking Charge of Your Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Well-Being, 2nd Edition, by Johanna Skilling ; foreword by Eileen Hoffman, MD. Published by Marlowe, 2006.
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Medical Speak Word of the Week - RHEUMATISM
Definition: Rheumatism or Rheumatic disorder is a non-specific term for medical problems affecting the heart, bones, joints, kidney, skin and lung. The traditional term covers such a range of different problems that to ascribe symptoms to "rheumatism" is not to say very much: arthritis and rheumatism between them cover at least 200 different conditions.
May 20th's News and Views...
Is Your Wife Pushing You to See a Doctor? Read This - And Go
By TARA PARKER-POPE
from The Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2007, Page R9
In late 2005, Phil Starke's wife began pressuring him to go to the doctor. Although he didn't feel great, he was pretty sure he knew why. Work and family demands and a busy travel schedule had left him tired and jet]lagged.
He had two young children at home and a third on the way. He was remodeling his home and had just given up caffeinated beverages cold turkey. And he was 49 years old. Of course he was tired.
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"I'm not a 20-year-old," says Mr. Starke a resident of San Jose, Calif., and manager of a software company. "There are going to be things that don't work the way they used to. I'm fairly comfortable with that."
His wife, Rachael, saw things differently. Her normally active and energetic husband wasn't just tired, he was fatigued and exhausted. He had lost weight relatively quickly, and he was drinking bottles and bottles of water. She became convinced he had diabetes.
"He was so drawn and thin, I burst into tears," she says. "He's thinking I'm hormonal. But I told him, 'You're sick, and you won't go to the doctor.' "
But Mr. Starke dismissed his wife's worries, noting that he had no family history of the disease. "She watches a lot of medical shows," he says.
Doctors say that the Starkes' situation isn't unusual, and that it's common for a wife to begin pushing her husband to visit the doctor long before a man thinks he needs to go. To be sure, plenty of wives are also guilty of neglecting their health. But surveys show that men are far less likely to have a personal physician than women. And even when prenatal visits are excluded, women are still twice as likely to visit the doctor as men.
For the full article, go to http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117804697962588532.html?mod=rss_Health
--Ms. Parker-Pope is a staff reporter in The Wall Street Journal's New York bureau and writes the paper's Health Journal column. She can be reached at encore@wsj.com5.
