Dear Doctors: The recommendation against taking a daily baby aspirin seems to pit heart disease prevention against bleeding risk. But it doesn't include aspirin's potential benefits in colon cancer reduction. How should people factor in the colon cancer benefit? Who makes these recommendations?
DEAR HARRIETTE: My girlfriend is talking about marriage way too soon in our relationship. We've only been dating for five months. We are having a great time together – that's true. But everything is still new, and she already jokes about the engagement ring she wants. I am sure the jokes are just jokes, but I feel that with every joke there is some truth. She is 30 years old, so I imagine her biological clock is ticking, as people say. But I am not ready to get married or have kids. Should I tell her that she's moving a little too fast for me? – Too Soon D
There’s been a lot of attention paid to President Joe Biden’s falling job approval rating. And it is indeed going down, down, down. But along with confidence in the president, the public is also losing faith in the Democratic Party’s ability to handle the issues that most concern voters today. It’s been a long fall for both Biden and his party since they narrowly won control in Washington one year ago this week.
Dear Doctors: I read that something called valley fever is getting to be more common here in Arizona on account of climate change. I’ve never even heard of it. Can you please explain what it is?
DEAR HARRIETTE: My son is applying for college this year and will likely go away to school next fall. I have prepared for this day for years. I know my job as a parent is to get him ready to be an independent adult. He is ready – but I don’t know if I am. That’s in part because I don’t know how my marriage is going to survive after my son goes.
The World Series has come and gone again, evoking the usual mixed feelings. For one thing, I didn’t have a team this year, although I was pulling for Atlanta in honor of my friend Lauren, a serious Braves fan I pretty much talked into baseball when she was my student. As a sometime athlete and a serious reader with a taste for complex narratives, she was a natural.
DEAR HARRIETTE: My best friend lives in East Los Angeles, and I live in the Valley. Whenever we hang out, she usually suggests that we do things on her side of town because the Valley "doesn't have a nightlife scene." I don't mind taking the drive every once in a while, but most of the time she wants to drink. Because of the drive I have to make, I don't get to drink with her. I don't think that this is fair, but I don't want to make it into a big issue. How can we compromise? – Meet Halfway
When we decorate around the house for the holidays, a lot of us use natural materials like pine cones, evergreen swags and branches with berries to add some festive cheer. To keep these natural materials, well, natural, do just one thing: Avoid painting or gilding them. Adding shimmer with spray paint, gold foil or even using ribbons can transform an arrangement from compostable and biodegradable to trash. Leaving natural items natural ensures that when the holidays are over, you can safely let them biodegrade.
He said, “Call anytime,” hours before he went into hospice. If only I could. If only the scores – hundreds, probably thousands – of friends of one of the most extraordinary figures in modern orthopedic medicine could call him anytime, or even once more.
Many Facebook employees felt their own company helped instigate and organize the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.