Community Health Resource Center
Newsletter
August - September 2013
970-870-1173
About Us
• Free health and
medical information
• Personalized medical
Internet searches
• Research information
provided for medical
personnel and the
public
• Subscriptions to many
medical and health
publications
• Reference materials
and a comprehensive
lending library
• Computer available for
personal medical
searches
Location
We are located in the
Yampa Valley Medical
Center across the hall
from SportsMed.
Hours
Monday – Friday
August 10:00 – 2:00
September thru May
10:00 – 4: 00
Contact
970-870-1173
[email protected]
Medical Journals/Newsletters
The Lancet - Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 2013
• New hormone stimulates pancreatic B-cell proliferation
Johns Hopkins - Health After 50, Summer 2013
• Herbal Effects: Is Your Supplement Safe and Effective?
Books of the Month
Travels with Epicurus
Daniel Klein
A visit to the dentist prompts a late-life turning point. Daniel Klein was in his
seventies when he was informed that he needed a mouth full of expensive
implants versus old-fashioned dentures. He chooses, instead, to make a
pilgrimage to the charming and quaint Greek island of Hydra, in the Argo
Saronic Gulf southeast of Athens. He intends to follow favorite philosophers,
Epicurus to Sartre, to live and appreciate simple pleasures available only in
later life. A travel book, a witty and accessible meditation; an optimistic guide
to living well and happily.
The Violinist’s Thumb
Sam Kean
How did the right combination of genes create the exceptionally flexible
thumbs and fingers of a singular violinist or pianist? How does DNA lead to
people with no fingerprints or children born with tails? What does DNA say (or
doesn’t say) about social problems like gender or race relations? What about
traits like intelligence or aggression? There’s enough DNA in a single cell to
stretch 6 feet and enough DNA in our bodies to stretch almost to the moon.
Understanding DNA can help us explain where we come from; how our bodies
and minds work or how they don’t work. Kean discusses retrospective
diagnoses of the famous dead, Chopin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Jane Austen, van
Gogh, Dostoyevsky, the pharaoh Amenhotep IV. A fascinating book about the
mysteries of DNA science.
Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks is well known as a neurologist who has a particular gift for writing
about the pathologies of the human nervous system. Dr. Sacks is a visionary in
his field; he demystifies hallucinations, de-stigmatizes those who experience
them while otherwise untroubled by psychiatric issues. More commonly they
are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, migraines or injury like
phantom limb pain. A third of all Parkinson’s patients experience hallucinations
as a consequence of their medication. Those who are bereaved may receive
comforting “visits” from the departed. Hallucinations can lead to religious
epiphanies or the feeling of leaving one’s own body. Sacks weaves together
stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences with
psychedelic drugs. He discusses the underreported condition – Charles Bonnet
Syndrome.