Fall is arriving, along with traditional influenza and the new swine flu. With appropriate precautions and available immunizations, we should all be able to enjoy a healthy season. Here is the current status and our recommendations.
An FDA advisory panel was widely reported last week to recommend banning Vicodin and Percocet because the committee believes the amount (500 mg) of Tylenol those drugs contain is dangerous and contributes to liver damage and fatalities. What should we do about Tylenol dosage in general?
The AMA opposes including a publicly run health insurance plan in reorganization of US health insurance. We at Orchard Health Care strongly feel precisely the opposite, that an available public plan is critical for any reform plan to succeed.
The New York Times lead story today was on the nationwide shortage of primary care physicians, which imperils the ability of the Obama administration to successfully implement health care reform.
A new flu epidemic, caused by an H1N1 virus that appears to be a relative of “swine flu,” has occurred in Mexico with numerous deaths, and with apparently much milder manifestations in the U.S. and elsewhere. How do we react?
Two large studies in the New England Journal of Medicine on prostate cancer PSA screening released yesterday provide data but not necessarily clarity.
If you require an MRI, you probably should remove any transdermal medication patches before you are scanned to avoid possible minor burns from possibly undisclosed metallic particle content in the patch.
Multivitamin use does not reduce the overall death rate nor the risk of cardiovascular disease nor most common cancers, according to recent results from the Women’s Health Initiative, which studies over 160,000 postmenopausal women.
A two-year study of over 800 overweight men and women concluded that high or low fat, protein or carbohydrate content made no difference in weight loss. Overall weight loss was modest, but not insignificant. But regular attendance at group or individual counseling sessions provided substantial benefit. NEJM 2.26.09
Tom Daschle avoided or evaded substantial taxes for free use of a car and driver. Do you think that behavior is acceptable in the leader who is supposed to revamp our entire health care system?