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Vaccination · July 27, 2013
Clinical preventive services can provide excellent value – (02-08-01)
Clinical preventive services can provide excellent value At first glance, this editorial sounds like the author may finally be grasping what prevention is. Read a little further, and you find that his definition of…
Cancer · July 27, 2013
Cancer outwits us again – (07-02-01)
Cancer outwits us again I know this may sound heartless and cruel, but to truly get a grasp on cancer, we have to have a shift in monies from a “cure” to prevention. I firmly believe that, despite the billions upon…
Osteoporosis Cures and Bone Health · July 27, 2013
Calcium supplementation of chocolate: effect on digestibility and lipids – (02-08-01)
Calcium supplementation of chocolate: effect on digestibility and lipids This article examines the effects of adding calcium to chocolate to lower the absorption of the fat. The addition of calcium carbonate lowered the…
Miscellaneous · July 27, 2013
Blood/Hair Mercury in Children and Women of Childbearing Age 1999 – (03-15-01)
Blood/Hair Mercury in Children and Women of Childbearing Age 1999 This is a nice overview article on mercury exposure in the US. It covers types of fish known to contain high levels of mercury (shark is on the…
Heart Disease · July 27, 2013
Blood Donations and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men – (01-13-01)
Blood Donations and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men This study does not support the popular belief that iron overload may be a risk factor for heart disease in humans. The fact that women have lower rates of heart…
Miscellaneous · July 27, 2013
Assessment of Laboratories Performing Hair Mineral Analysis – (01-13-01)
Assessment of Laboratories Performing Hair Mineral Analysis This article is not a glowing overview of hair analysis. I have used hair analysis in the past and have found it to be effective for heavy metal exposure. I…
Hospital Care · July 27, 2013
Are Patients’ Office Visits with Physicians Getting Shorter? – (01-22-01)
Are Patients’ Office Visits with Physicians Getting Shorter? I thought this was a very interesting article examining a very important question. The answer? No, they are longer by one to two minutes over the past decade…
Gut Health 101 · July 27, 2013
Are antibiotics effective for adults and children with acute sore throats? – (02-08-01)
Are antibiotics effective for adults and children with acute sore throats? This is a Cochrane Collaboration review of the effectiveness of antibiotics for sore throat. The overall results did show that antibiotics were…
Heart Disease, Stroke, Blood Pressure Tips · July 27, 2013
Antioxidant Treatment Reduces Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Rats – (01-13-01)
Antioxidant Treatment Reduces Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Rats This research article begins to link reactive oxygen species (ROS) to increased blood pressure. ROS are formed normally in the body by the process of…
Cancer · July 27, 2013
Aging, Immunity, and Cancer – (01-02-01)
Aging, Immunity, and Cancer This is a review of the current literature supporting the idea that our immune system is constantly fighting off cancer, and it is the slowing of the immune system response with age that…
Diabetes (Type 2) · July 27, 2013
Acarbose, insulin in Type 2 diabetes w/ non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis – (02-02-01)
Acarbose, insulin in Type 2 diabetes w/ non-alcoholic liver cirrhosis This study examines the use of acarbose, an alpha-glucosidase inhibitor in patients whose liver does not function well. The results were good for…
Vitamins and Supplements 101 · July 25, 2013
Post Workout Supplements—Are They Worth the Hype?
The “performance nutrition” field is certainly profitable. Athletes and body builders will spend nearly any amount of money on products to increase gains. But is this money well spent? In general, I can tell you that…
Breast Cancer · July 24, 2013
Breast Cancer News: Prevent Breast Cancer with This Vitamin
Normally, I wouldn’t bore you all with yet another “low vitamin D levels increase the risk of X disease” blog post. However, I just had to share this one because of the strength of the association. In general, vitamin D…
Diabetes (Type 2) · July 23, 2013
Doctor, Why Is My Vitamin D Level Low?
This is actually a very pertinent question and one I have asked many times. Why are some many patient’s vitamin D levels very low despite good sun exposure. I may have the answer. When researchers first discovered that…
Shoulder Pain · July 22, 2013
Frozen Shoulder Symptoms-Is Surgery Your Best Option?
Manipulation under anesthesia, or MUA, is a procedure where a patient is stretched and adjusted under general anesthesia. It is a well accepted treatment for conditions such as frozen shoulder. I have personally been…
Cholesterol · July 21, 2013
Walnut consumption and plasma fatty acids and lipoproteins – (07-19-01)
Walnut consumption and plasma fatty acids and lipoproteins So many times nuts get a bad rap because of their fat content, and yet most nuts are high in monounsaturated fats. This type of fat in many types of nuts has…
Breast Cancer · July 21, 2013
Tamoxifen may mean that later tumors are more aggressive – (07-19-01)
Tamoxifen may mean that later tumors are more aggressive Let me understand here. We give tamoxifen to patients who have had breast cancer to prevent future recurrences. But, it turns out that, if that same patient on…
Autoimmunity · July 21, 2013
T Helper Cell 1 Immune Responses and Atherogenesis – (07-12-01)
T Helper Cell 1 Immune Responses and Atherogenesis Remember from previous Updates that the body has two types of immune responses where T cells are concerned: Th1 is the attack mode designed to attack foreign things in…
Urinary Tract Infections · July 21, 2013
Risk for Mortality and Mental Retardation w/ Maternal UTI – (07-02-01)
Risk for Mortality and Mental Retardation w/ Maternal UTI I must admit that this is new info to me, but if this does hold out to be true I do have a strong recommendation for any women prone to urinary tract infections…
Heart Disease · July 21, 2013
Reactive Oxygen Species in Skeletal Muscles From Heart Failure – (07-12-01)
Reactive Oxygen Species in Skeletal Muscles From Heart Failure This article looks at the dysfunction in skeletal muscle following a heart attack in mice. This dysfunction is believed to come from free radical damage…
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