Sad to say that this is still a problem among health care professionals – lack of hand washing. Time and again, studies show that this simple act significantly reduces infection rates. The NY Times recently …

Several recent studies of adult African, heterosexual men, show that the risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases are significantly reduced in those who were circumcised. This has prompted interest in trends in circumcision …

Loss of a loved one is a terrible burden to bear – but how do pets survive the grief they have when a beloved owner dies? Read this compelling article from the NY Times published …

Just read this in the magazine, The Week: The Best of the US. and International Media (July 29, 2011):
To approve a drug, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires pharmaceutical companies to provide just two …

Type I diabetics do not produce insulin, the hormone that removes sugar from the bloodstream, so they have to inject themselves with insulin 3 or 4 times a day in order to lower their blood sugars. New …

Sometimes things get “fixed” and it really just gets broken more. Such is the case with the state of health care in this country and for patients who do not earn living wages. For those …

Just finished an article in Plane & Pilot about an organization I hadn’t heard of: Medicine on the Move. MoM operates out of Ghana, Africa and is a charity for health care education and medical …

I usually include the TSH in my panel of lab tests  - especially in the middle aged – although it’s an important hormone to check if symptoms warrant, such as palpatations, hair loss or fatigue …

Colon cleansing – it sounds therapeutic and harmless – after all, what could be harmful in flushing out the colon with water and herbal products? Claims suggest that flushing out the colon regularly will “detoxify” …

This technique is done in the office under local anesthesia. Within a half hour of the procedure, the patient is free to resume his/her activities.