Blood Banks Need a Dose of Viagra

Transfused blood keeps vessels from enlarging as they should. 10.23.2007

Best News in 50 Years for Schizophrenics

An entirely different approach could provide safer and better medicines. 10.18.2007

Small Genetic Differences, Huge Health Problems

Genomics takes the first step toward curing the toughest diseases. 10.03.2007

Teflon-ized Frog Chemical Could Save You from Disease

The nonstick pan coating cooks up a mean antibiotic. 09.14.2007

Girls Gone Boys Gone Wild

Altering a mouse's sense of smell can seriously mess with its gender identity. 09.11.2007

A Yogurt a Day Keeps the Runs Away

Good bacteria help set straight an ailing gut. 08.23.2007

Health Trends: Alternatives to Antidepressants

The drugs' safety and efficacy are routinely questioned. 07.24.2007

Can We Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?

Research has clues but no answers yet. 07.20.2007

Health Trends: Strain Bad for Brain

Another great reason to avoid chronic distress. 07.13.2007

Health FAQs: Toned Bones

Nutrients can keep your osteo- free of -porosis. 07.10.2007

Health Trends: Menopause and Bone Loss

Avoid it before you have to treat it. 07.06.2007

Health Trends: Contagious and Selfish

Andrew Speaker could have been a modern-day Typhoid Mary. 06.29.2007

Osteoporosis Hits Men, Too

But it's under-treated and under-researched. 06.13.2007

Hormone Therapy: Sooner, Later, or Not at All?

Sorting out the cloudy issue that is estrogen replacement 06.11.2007

Good Communication with the Good Doctor

An educated consumer is the best customer. 06.08.2007

Health FAQs: Diet and Genetics

If protein, fat, and carbs are bad, what do you eat? 06.06.2007

The Open Secret to Successful Dieting

No short-cuts involved, just straight-up arithmetic 06.06.2007

Fat Is Not the Enemy

A low-fat diet won't necessarily make you thinner... or healthier. 05.11.2007

Heart Disease: The Diabetes Link

Obesity cuts to the heart with a double-edged sword. 05.02.2007

About Health Trends

Robert W. Lash, M.D., is a clinical associate professor of internal medicine, University of Michigan Medical School. His clinical interests are thyroid disease, diabetes, endocrine disorders in pregnancy, osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease, and medical education.

A board certified internist and endocrinologist, Dr. Lash has an active clinical practice and is a hospitalist at the University of Michigan. He is currently involved in diabetes research with the National Institute of Health.

Every month Dr. Lash will answer questions from Discover readers, so if you're confused about health information, email the good doctor.