May 20, 2012 Exercise Associated with Reduced Cancer Recurrence By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. See Dr. Pinna’s comments below… Spectacular news for the 14 million Americans living today with a diagnosis of cancer This week, two impressive medical studies show that exercise helps to prevent recurrence of [...]
Nail Fungus affects half a billion people.
Onychomycosis is ugly, but not dangerous.
There may be a natural cure.
The present tests for detecting breast cancer are inadequate. Breast cancer is often detected too late by mammograms.
A blood test would give women a better chance for a cure.
DR. MIRKIN ON SALT: TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE Salt for Warm Weather Exercise Two major reports in medical journals claim that getting people to reduce their intake of salt will save lives, prevent heart attacks and markedly reduce health costs (Annals of Internal Medicine, April 2010; NEJM, April 22, 2010). That may be true [...]
Children Increasingly Visiting EDs After Ingesting Batteries By Larry Hand, from Medscape May 14, 2012 — The number and rate of battery-related emergency department (ED) visits for children younger than 18 years nearly doubled between 1990 and 2009. The risks were highest for children younger than 5 years and often involved the small, coin-like batteries [...]
I was moonlighting in a small ER in another city. We were going on another vacation to the Alps and I needed extra money. I didn’t like the ER. It was old, had very little modern equipment and it was dirty. In addition, the nurses were all from South America and I had to talk [...]
To some degree, we all have the “Bag Lady” mentality. It is simply the thought that the future might be mean and we had better keep something that we would normally throw away in case “We might need it someday.” Women, because they must care for children, have this thought more frequently than men. In [...]
Dr. Mirkin: Does Eating Fast Increase Diabetes Risk? A study from Lithuania found that those who eat their food very rapidly are 2.5 times more likely to develop diabetes than those who eat more slowly. Diabetics are also more likely to be overweight and have less schooling than non-diabetics. (International Congress of Endocrinology and European [...]
