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… that time I accidentally went to a Low-Testosterone doctor, though…

Low Testosterone Men

Pretty recently moved to Fort Worth (little over six months at this point), and since I figure I’m not the healthiest person of all-time, I wanted to go get a physical. It’s actually pretty amazing how ridiculously hard it is… Continue Reading

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From the ‘we’ve come a long way’ file: an African-American man in Mississippi currently has a shorter life expectancy than an average American did in 1960. Whoa.

However you choose to slice it, the health care situation in the United States is a bit of a wreck, to be sure. The Commonwealth Fund just released some detailed rankings of health care performance state-by-state, and then the main… Continue Reading

Casper, Wyoming is now the hub for athletes looking for quick, painless surgery

Compartment syndrome happens when athletes build up their leg muscles — essentially, because the amount of space within the leg is finite, eventually the muscles push up on blood vessels, which restricts blood flow. Pain follows. Typically, for someone like… Continue Reading

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Well, this is depressing: more people die on Christmas then at any other time of the year

If you study the National Death Index — which is morbid, but some people do it for a living, like this guy — you would learn that Christmas, the day after Christmas and New Year’s Day are some of the… Continue Reading