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Despite the potential for abuse and the usual risks associated with any physical activity like sex, Viagra has been a boon to many men. "It is still the most patient-friendly method of treating erectile dysfunction," says Dr. Ira Sharlip, assistant clinical professor of urology at the University of California at San Francisco. Although Viagra doesn't work for everyone, it's what most patients want to try first, before turning to such alternatives as injections, vacuum pumps and surgical implants. Perhaps all those unsolicited e-mail come-ons are a small price to pay after...
Another simple intervention I often recommend is breath work. Breath control is the most powerful method I have found to reduce anxiety, even in its most severe form of panic disorder. Conventional drugs suppress anxiety but often cause significant side effects and dependence. I have found it is impossible to be anxious while breathing deeply, slowly, quietly and regularly. By working on those qualities in your breathing, you can develop a practical technique for preventing or cutting short an anxiety attack. Breathing exercises derived from yoga are even more effective. With practice, breath work quiets down the nervous system. This...
Writing seems a fairly poor method for relating a memoir. For most of us, memories exist as visual experiences. As such, a more exact duplication of memory would require the use of a visual medium. Movies, obviously, would be one way, though cost and production are prohibitive. But painting and other static visual media have limited narrative possibilities. Comix therefore, offer the perfect vehicle for memoir, being not only inexpensive, but combining both the visual and narrative components essential to conjuring up the past. Two recent books, one about growing up with a disabled brother, the other about living through...
...Written in a visual language that would otherwise have taken up thousands of words of prose, comix allow not only for a more efficient and less expensive approach to memoir, but a richer one as well. "Ride Together" and "Tuesday" are just two fine examples of this arguably superior method of relating personal history...
According to the department of rare books and special collections at the Countway Library of Medicine, Porter’s teaching method led to a greater demand for experimental equipment...