Psychologist Jill Weber has grown used to hearing educated, high-achieving women complain about the same problem: They cannot find the emotional intimacy they want from men.
Weber, who has a practice in the Washington, D.C., area, specializes in teen, adult and couples psychotherapy. She has written a book about the reasons some women...
With a tradition more than 100 years old, osteopathic physicians are hardly the new doctors in town. But the profession’s recent growth — in both training facilities and number of graduates — could help reverse a looming shortage of primary-care providers that experts say will hit rural communities especially hard.
The national shortfall...
A lawyer contacted Beatrice Golomb, a physician at the VA San Diego Healthcare Center, because he could no longer follow a normal conversation with his clients. A radiologist told Golomb that he found himself suddenly unable to distinguish left from right. A third person told her he had grown so...
A recent episode of “Girls” featured an excruciating scene in which Hannah, grappling with OCD, inserted a Q-Tip deep into her ear canal and “heard air hiss out the hole” she’d apparently poked in her ear drum.
Later, show creator Lena Dunham, who plays Hannah, tweeted: “If all I’...
By JAMIE LAMPROS
Standard-Examiner correspondent
March is the month of college spring breaks and, let’s face it, some people raise a glass or two in the name of temporary freedom from homework.
That makes it a timely time to cover some things you may not know about alcohol.
• Men and women process alcohol differently...
