Health and Well Being

Pat talks with Yale Medicine's Dr. Stanton Honig with the Sexual and Reproductive Medicine Division of Yale Urology discussing vasectomy reversals, male menopause, testosterone and men's health.

Monkeypox is highly transmissable and there is evidence that it can be spread through use of a towel or sheets of someone with the lesions.

If a person has the rash, immediately see your healthcare provider.

There are two vaccines, according to Dr. Gaffin, who says they may be in short supply but there is a stockpile.

Dr. Gaffin says like genital herpes, sometimes a person with monkeypox might not know they have it.

Monkeypox is now prevalent in the gay community.  Symptoms other than the rash may vary.

The lesions can be as small as pimples or appear as larger pustules similar to the shingles rash, but in different parts of the body.

Monkeypox is spread usually through sexual contact.

Pat talks with Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Neil Gaffin, Valley Health System, Ridgewood, NJ discussing monkeypox.

Monkeypox is a serious disease, now worldwide, including here in the U.S.

We need to think outside the box about using technology perhaps and different healthcare models.

The pandemic has exhausted and stressed people to the point where they want to take a break from direct patient care, in some cases.

These are challenging times for different specialties such as hospice and palliative care.

We discuss the premise of the book "Bowling Alone".

So many reasons we are running short of nurses.  Supply can't keep up with demand due to an aging baby-boomer population and nurses leaving direct patient care after the pandemic.

Pat talks with Dr. Betty Nelson, head of the RN Residency Program at Calvary Hospital discussing our nationwide nursing shortage and how we need to start thinking outside the box to meet current and future challenges in healthcare.  At Calvary, their RN Residency Program is addressing the need for nurses specializing in hospice or end of life and palliative care training.

The company CereVasc has developed a new mini eShunt used on a patient in Argentina which is inserted in the groin, without cutting open the head or requiring problematic tubing.  Dr. Matouk says this could revolutionize neurosurgery.

Problems with Shunts  Shunts, used since the beginning of neurosurgery, have many problems but there has now been a revolutionary discovery.

NPH in some cases can be reversed.

NPH is short for Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus which can actually be reversed.

Dr. Matouk describes what is commonly called "water on the brain" which can happen in infants, all the way up to older adults.

Pat talks with Dr. Charles Matouk, Vice Chair of  Clinical Affairs at the Department of Neurosurgery at Yale University.  He discusses hydrocephalus and a revolutionary breakthrough using an eShunt developed by the company CereVasc.  Although used on only one patient in Argentina, it is poised to debut in the U.S. this year.

Finding out what may be inside you is the theory behind Dr. Comite's new app, Groq Health.

Disease may be lurking underneath the surface of our bodies.  It's important to find out if that's the case with you.

It remains to be seen what is actually happening with those who haven't had Covid.