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Diabetes and Obesity Tips · April 3, 2013
Diabetic ketoacidosis associated with Metabolife – (10-31-02)
Diabetic ketoacidosis associated with Metabolife: a report of two cases While I’m in no way a fan of Metabolife (so what’s wrong with not changing anything about your lifestyle that got you overweight in the first…
Food Allergy · April 3, 2013
Atopic/eczema cases are related to food allergies – (10-31-02)
Starvation reduces skin wheals, plasma substance P, vasoactive intestinal peptide in patients with atopic eczema/dermatitis syndrome While I don’t usually recommend starvation for patients with eczema (although most…
Gut Health 101 · April 3, 2013
Antibiotic Resistance–A Survey of Physician Perceptions – (10-31-02)
Antibiotic Resistance–A Survey of Physician Perceptions Okay…if the docs in this survey are at least aware of the fact that overuse of antibiotics is an issue and that all major medical journals are practically begging…
NSAIDs Dangerous · April 3, 2013
A Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor Impairs Ligament Healing in the Rat – (10-31-02)
A Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor Impairs Ligament Healing in the Rat Just in case you thought you’d skip the old fashioned NSAIDs and go for the fancy new selective COX-2 inhibitors, better hope there’s no soft tissue…
Allergies · April 2, 2013
Drops for Allergies to Peanuts: Start Early
Peanut allergies can lead to something called anaphalactic shock. Not pleasant when it is your child’s airway that closes up. Many of these families have to carry around a shot of epinephrine (“epi-pen”) to open up the…
Elbow Pain · April 1, 2013
Ultrasound-Guided Needle Therapy Effective for Tennis Elbow – (12-19-02)
Ultrasound-Guided Needle Therapy Effective for Tennis Elbow This is an excellent article and strongly supports what I talk about in my office. For everyone out there who thinks steroid injections are a useful procedure…
Strengthen Your Immune System · April 1, 2013
Treatment of the Common Cold with Unrefined Echinacea – (12-19-02)
Treatment of the Common Cold with Unrefined Echinacea A few comments here. First, most commercially available forms of echniacea are standardized for the active components (which is still up for debate…) and not given…
Diabetes and Obesity Tips · April 1, 2013
The Diabetes Prevention Program – (12-19-02)
The Diabetes Prevention Program This large intervention trial was designed to see if lifestyle changes (which were actually pretty general and not nearly inclusive of what should be included) can impact progression to…
Drug Research · April 1, 2013
Physical Fitness and CRP Level in Children and Young Adults – (02-03-03)
Physical Fitness and CRP Level in Children and Young Adults Yet another way to lower CRP levels, and yet multi-million dollar trials are underway to determine if statin drugs (cholesterol lowering) can also lower CRP…
Drug Research · April 1, 2013
Multivitamin Use May Reduce C-Reactive Protein Levels – (02-03-03)
Multivitamin Use May Reduce C-Reactive Protein Levels Do we really need a trial to find a prescription drug to lower CRP levels????? Read entire article here Jan 21 – Multivitamin use is associated with a significant…
Heart Disease, Stroke, Blood Pressure Tips · April 1, 2013
High insulin and homocysteine increases ADMA levels – (02-03-03)
IV L-Arginine Infusion Decreases Endothelin-1 Levels and Improves Endothelial Function in Patients w/ Angina and Normal Coronary Arteriograms — Correlation w/ Asymmetric Dimethylarginine Levels I know this title seems…
Asthma · April 1, 2013
Glaxo Stops Study of Asthma Drug – (02-03-03)
Glaxo Stops Study of Asthma Drug A few important things here. First, this drug was already approved–meaning it was already on the market and this was just a larger follow up study. This study was stopped because it may…
Osteoarthritis · April 1, 2013
Fitness, fatness, activity as predictors of bone density in older persons – (12-19-02)
Fitness, fatness, activity as predictors of bone density in older persons This article may be surprising to some, but really fits right in with research that has been piling up in regards to exercise in our senior…
Calorie Restriction · April 1, 2013
Extended longevity in mice lacking insulin receptor in adipose tissue – (02-03-03)
Extended longevity in mice lacking insulin receptor in adipose tissue This study looked at mice that did not have insulin receptors in adipose cells and found an 18% increase in longevity. This strongly supports…
Heart Disease · April 1, 2013
CRP, Metabolic Syndrome, and Risk of Cardiovascular Events – (02-03-03)
CRP, Metabolic Syndrome, and Risk of Cardiovascular Events While the rest of the medical community is debating whether we should check CRP levels in patients, these authors decided more than eight years ago that is was…
Diabetes (Type 2) · April 1, 2013
Co Q10 improves BP, glycaemic control: trial with type 2 diabetes – (12-19-02)
Co Q10 improves BP, glycaemic control: trial with type 2 diabetes This study used a very reasonable dose of 200 mg/day of CoQ10 and showed favorable effects in diabetics. While this effect was small, keep in mind that…
Breast Cancer · April 1, 2013
Breast Cancer News: 4 Things Women Under 40 NEED to Know
Given that I’m running about a 3 week backlog on emails, you’ve probably heard this information before because it’s been all over the news. Regardless, it does not get any scarier then this. I will try not to sound like…
Dental Health · April 1, 2013
Blood Lead Levels and Dental Caries in School-Age Children – (12-19-02)
Blood Lead Levels and Dental Caries in School-Age Children This article should come as somewhat of a shocker to those who have always supported water flouridation. Usually, these supporters are somewhat clueless as to…
Hospital Care · April 1, 2013
Are Pediatricians Adhering to Principles of Judicious Antibiotic Use for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections? – (02-03-03)
Are Pediatricians Adhering to Principles of Judicious Antibiotic Use for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections? The answer in a nutshell? No. How can we have major journals (including pediatric journals) practically…
Probiotic · April 1, 2013
An anthroposophic lifestyle and intestinal microflora in infancy – (12-19-02)
An anthroposophic lifestyle and intestinal microflora in infancy There is no longer any excuse for pediatricians to be unaware of the long term damaging effects of antibiotics and the importance of maintaining a healthy…
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