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"How to Make Sense of Cholesterol"
Posted on January 21, 2015 at 12:45 AM |
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Learn the better indicator of heart disease risk than just your total cholesterol - plus the dangers of statins and the need to supplement with CoQ10 if you're taking these cholesterol-...
Read Full Post »NSAIDS Infographic
Posted on December 22, 2014 at 2:10 PM |
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Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs may offer temporary relief for chronic pain, but this comes with a list o...
Read Full Post »MD on Strep
Posted on January 19, 2014 at 1:35 PM |
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After cooking breakfast on a Sunday, you go upstairs to wake up Johnny. Your 8 year old son does not look so good! Uh oh! You look up the symptoms on cdc.gove and he has most of the following...
- Sore throat, usually starting quickly
- Severe pain when swallowing
- A fever (101° F or above)
- Red and swollen tonsils, sometimes with white patches or streaks of pus
- Tiny red spots (petechiae) on the soft or hard palate—the area at the bac...
Science--not all it's cracked up to be
Posted on November 25, 2013 at 3:40 PM |
In an article entitled "Problems with scientific research" in the Economist,
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Anticholinergics and Brain Function
Posted on May 8, 2013 at 10:40 AM |
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In an article entitled "Long-term anticholinergic use and the aging brain" published in the journal Alzheimer's & Dementia, the following was summarized here by Science Daily:
Read Full Post »"Research on medications commonly taken by older adults has foun...
Heart Drug and Mortality
Posted on November 28, 2012 at 9:50 AM |
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A Reuters article published today highlights a study showing an greater risk of death for those on a certain medication called digoxin for heart arrhythmias or atrial fibrillation.
"People with a com...
Read Full Post »Meningitis and Steroid Injections
Posted on October 30, 2012 at 8:25 AM |
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In a Reuters article published on October 30th, a meningitis outbreak has now spread to 19 states (including Ohio). What is the cause? A fungal contaminant found in steroid injections for spinal pain.
Is fish oil worthless?
Posted on September 23, 2012 at 9:20 PM |
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Recently, a Journal of the American Medical Association article came out with an annalysis a few select studies on fish oil and cardiac health. They concluded that fish oil is of no benefit to heart health. Is this accurate?
Even the AMA can get confused sometimes.
Read Full Post »Lumbar surgery outcomes
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 7:25 AM |
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In a study published February 15, 2011 in the journal Spine, work comp patients with spinal fusion did not show a good outcome.
Fusion w...
Read Full Post »Is the Flu Gone? Think Again!
Posted on November 15, 2011 at 8:50 AM |
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According to the CDC, flu season usually peaks in February, and it seems that people have already been hit with hard fall flu season.
However, according to Dr. J Anthony Morris, former FDA Chief Vaccine Control Officer, "There is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed iseffective in preven...
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