Intimacy with a Chronic Illness

Jun 2, 2020 • 3 comments

Sexual dysfunction is estimated to be 2 to 6 times more frequent in patients with chronic illness or disability. Diabetes, cancers, cardiovascular diseases, psychiatric disorders, kidney failure,...

End-of-Lockdown Anxiety

May 26, 2020

Fear of infection, panic on public transportation or in stores, readjustment to work, the need for consumerism, social pressure... The fears caused by the end of the COVID-19 lockdown are numerous....

End of the COVID-19 Lockdown: How to Carry On with the Coronavirus?

May 15, 2020 • 1 comment

After more than a month in lockdown, Americans will have to start to learn to live with the coronavirus. Many in the US are worried about the phased end to the lockdown. No one reacts to the virus in...

Learn More About Methotrexate!

May 13, 2020 • 2 comments

Methotrexate is a chemotherapy agent and immune system suppressant. It is used to treat cancer, autoimmune diseases and inflammatory diseases of the skin or joints such as rheumatoid arthritis,...

HIV/AIDS

HIV and the Coronavirus

May 12, 2020

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) affects 36.9 million people worldwide, including more than 1.1 million in the US. HIV targets CD4 lymphocytes, cells essential to the immune system, making the...

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid Arthritis & the Coronavirus

May 12, 2020

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affects over 1.3 million Americans and as much as 1% of the worldwide population. The disease affects the joints and causes the progressive destruction of cartilage and...

Diabetes (Type 2)

Type 2 Diabetes: Learn More About Metformin!

May 7, 2020 • 1 comment

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, making up more than 90% of all diabetes cases. It is characterized by a later diagnosis than type 1 diabetes and often occurs in people who are...

Multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis and COVID-19

May 6, 2020 • 1 comment

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. Currently, nearly 1 million adults have MS in the United States. The symptoms are varied: fatigue,...

Crohn's disease
Ulcerative colitis

Gastrointestinal Disorders and the Coronavirus

May 5, 2020 • 1 comment

Approximately 1.6 million Americans currently have Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). And this number is constantly increasing, as as many as 70,000 new cases are diagnosed in the US each year! The...

Diabetes (Type 1)
Diabetes (Type 2)

Diabetes and the Coronavirus

Apr 29, 2020

According to the Diabetes Research Institute, 34.2 million people, or 10.5% of the U.S. population are living with diabetes, with approximately another 7.3 million who have not yet been diagnosed....

Chronic kidney disease

Kidney Disease and the Coronavirus

Apr 28, 2020

Kidney disease is far from being a rare condition, with an estimated 37 million people affected by chronic kidney disease in the US. Kidney disease can lead to a gradual and irreversible...

Obesity

Coronavirus and Obesity

Apr 23, 2020

Obesity is a chronic progressive condition that affects more than 70 million adults across the US, or approximately 43% of the adult population. Obesity is a major risk factor for many illnesses,...