Toni Brayer MD

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  • Bush Does Something Right With Community Clinics

    I applaud "soon to be ex"-president Bush for doing one thing right. During his 8 years as president he opened or expanded over 1200 community health clinics in the United States in under- served cities. These clinics are essential for providing basic medical care and are often the only form of care for people without health insurance.

  • Teen Chastity Vows Don't Work

    "By the grace of God, the love of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, we pledge to keep ourselves sexually pure.
    We pledge, from this day forward, to look at, listen to, think about, and participate only in activities that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, and praiseworthy as outlined in Philippians 4:8.
    We pledge to do whatever we can to encourage each other to do the same."

  • Brick Labor in Bangladesh

    When you feel weary at your job just be glad you don't have this job. Ouch, what a headache!

  • Safe drinking? Try iBreath Alcohol Breathalyzer

    A breathalyzer for your ipod touch or iphone is now available as iBreath Alcohol Breathalyzer. Just breathe into this nifty attachment and you can find out if you are safe to drive after a night of alcohol. Since women metabolize alcohol at different rates than men, sometimes after as few as two drinks the blood levels may be over the legal driving limit. No more guessing with the ibreath. For $80, this is a great Christmas gift.

  • C-Section Birth Amazing Mom Performs Self C-Section

    Ines Ramirez Perez was in labor, alone in a one room cabin in the mountains of Rio Talea, Mexico, with no one to help. The nearest clinic was 80km away and she had 12 hours of constant pain. Since she had delivered a dead baby three years earlier, she decided she did not want to deliver another dead baby and she would rather die herself.

  • soft drinks contributing to obesity Obesity Tax for Sodas

    I read that Gov. Paterson in New York has proposed a 15% obesity tax for soft drinks as part of his budget for the state. He would limit this to "non-diet" soft drinks and it would generate $404 million a year. Juice, bottled water and diet drinks would be exempt.

    This is the first time I have heard of a "sin tax" for these products that are empty calories. Public health officials have applauded the proposal, saying it would help the fight against childhood obesity.

  • Holiday Stress Beat Holiday Stress For Women Only

    This is for the women readers. I truly don't believe men suffer from holiday stress.

    The holidays can be huge stressors for women and Christmas/Chanukah is probably the worst. Let's look at all of the "extra" pressures we face during the holidays:

  • Sugar Is As Addictive As Cocaine

    I have had patients talk about "sugar addiction" and I know I have sugar cravings myself, (especially at night), but now there is a new study that reports sugar stimulates the same part of the brain that is activated in other addictions. Scientists from Princeton University showed that sugar caused neurochemical changes in the brains of rats in the same way as drugs that are abused. The animals experienced cravings, withdrawal and bingeing, which typifies "addiction".

  • Mediterranean diet and heart disease risk Nuts Added to the Mediterranean Diet Improve Heart Disease Risk

    The Mediterranean diet has been proven to benefit people at risk for heart disease and strokes. Now a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, shows that people who were at high risk for heart disease who followed the Mediterranean diet and ate 2 tablespoons of mixed nuts a day significantly improved their risk factors.

    Here is what happened:

  • Should The Doctor Say You Are Dying?

    Most Oncologists say they would tell a terminally ill patient that they will die. But in the same survey of over 700 Oncologists, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, it was revealed that 48% of the doctors would talk about death only when their patients said "yes" they wanted to talk about it. Also, less than half of the oncologists (43%) said they would give an estimate of the time a patient has left to live.

    Yet 74% of those same doctors said THEY would want to know their prognosis, including a time frame of when death could be expected.

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