The recent article showing people who take Calcium supplements have a higher risk of heart disease than those who don’t, falls in line with other studies showing that taking vitamins, anti-oxidants, and now calcium are worse than not taking the supplements.
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The Good cholesterol isn’t good, but the bad cholesterol is still bad. HDL is a marker, but not a cause, for individuals who have better heart health, but raising HDL does not decrease the incidence of heart disease. The good news: under your doctors directions – you probably don’t need the niacin or the fish oil – but still eat fish
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There is an old saying- what do you call alternative medicine that works? – Conventional Medicine. A recent JAMA article looked at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine- his views and mine.
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Teenagers don’t drive like adults. They do not have the experience, the reaction time, and they like speed. The safest car you can get for them are the ones with a collision avoidance system. The worst cars you can get for them are “old beaters.”
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Hijacked into getting a physical, I discovered how sick I must be. All this, because I wanted a tour of the Great Wall of China. I didn’t expect the Chinese herbs or diagnosis.
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Does red meat increase your mortality? According to the recent report it does- but when you analyze that report, you find that correlation does not equal causation, and here are just a few major flaws with that study.
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Are we returning to the Dark Ages, where science is less important than political thought? We need to advance our medicine, and not spend resources on Alternative therapies of no benefit.
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Science agrees on a few simple things to help prevent old age from becoming senile old age. Here are a few tips that all of us in medicine agree on- and it just so happens my 87 year old dad and 83 year old mom practice them.
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A nurse in Arizona recently steered a patient away from transplantation and to hospice. Was this an act of an angel of mercy – or a rogue nurse blinded by limited experience and education using her position to steer a patient to hospice.
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