Recent hypertension guidelines by the ACC/AHA substantially relax treatment standards. I explain why I disagree with the changes, as do various other professional groups. Here’s the short story.
Hip and spine fractures caused by osteoporosis are serious. We can detect and treat osteoporosis safely and effectively. Here’s a quick update.
Last month the USPS Task Force released a comprehensive analysis of studies that looked at possible benefits of vitamins and vitamin/mineral combinations in reducing cancer and preventing heart disease. The report reiterated that they found no evidence that vitamins helped either class of disease.
We all can use practical help to maintain our weight. Many of us need a sustained plan to attain a proper body weight and avoid the adverse health consequences of diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease that frequently accompany overweight. Dr. Kanner’s short slide show has been helpful to many of his patients since its first posting in February 2008.
BMC Medicine article on DNA barcoding of randomly chosen herbal products yields troubling results.
Testosterone is not everything and is overmarketed. Twin bathtubs are quaint. Women’s libido is the next frontier, but far in the distance.
I avidly read and observe news and public affairs. Frequently I am frustrated by incomplete analysis or failure to even ask no less answer questions that seem not only obvious to me but central to the issue. I thought I would share some of these observations from time to time. Perhaps you can answer them, or at least commiserate, or set me straight.
The sky is falling. My headache must be a brain tumor. Advance catastrophication raises a patient’s anxiety and rarely is helpful. Doctors need to proceed thoroughly and calmly but still rationally protect against risk to the patient in a timely fashion.
Like the main character in this book, long-term Orchard Health Care member Joan Dash spent much of her childhood in a nudist camp. She went on to get a master’s and Ph.D. at Harvard where she studied soil microbiology. Today, she and her husband use the ground penetration techniques described in this book, helping archaeologists decide where to dig.
Traditional Jewish ethnic food, especially delicatessen, is typically extraordinarily high in salt and saturated fat. It probably unwittingly contributed to the early mortality of the patriarchs of prior generations.