Medical News Update
We can wipe out mosquitos at no cost to the environment and save the healthcare system. Every day malaria kills children – the mosquito borne illness.
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Medical News Update
Headlines from medical news stories around the world – updated almost daily. Dr. Simpson reviews medical news and sometimes adds humor.
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Cellphones and Cancer: Making Sense of the Madness
If you are a male rat, exposed to high doses of 3G cell phone radiation, you will get brain cancer. If you don’t get it you will live longer.
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Antibiotics – What Happens When we Run Out?
Superbugs, resistant to our last antibiotics have made it to the United States. Should you be worried? Yes. Are there things you can do? Yes.
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Silent Heart Attacks: Just As Deadly
Silent heart attacks make up almost half of all heart attacks. The prognosis of them is just as deadly. Three symptoms of a silent heart attack as well as dietary advice to avoid refined carbohydrates.
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Did Percocet Kill Prince?
Speculation that Prince may have died from Percocet again raises awareness that we have a major epidemic of narcotic deaths in the United States. More people die from narcotics than die in car accidents.
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Difficult Patients
Do “disruptive” patients get worse care? A new study from the British Medical Journal Tends to show this. It points to the need for better relationship between patients and physicians.
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Narcotics: Too Often Prescribed for Chronic Pain
The CDC recommendations for narcotic (opioid) use are out. We have a public health crisis with increasing prescriptions for opioid medications without good evidence they help chronic pain. Vicodin, Percocet, and Oxycontin are as addictive as heroin.
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Zika – the New STD
As Zika makes its way to the United States, transmission both as an STD and mosquitos will make it a challenge. Finding a vaccine becomes a high priority.
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