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Turns out that a highly potent antibiotic is a by-product of muskrat feces. Discovered by a team from Pusan National University in South Korea, it kills Salmonella (the pathogen that causes food poisoning), Staph. aureus (which causes opportunistic …
This article appeared in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. I was actually flipping through the pages to read another article when it caught my eye – I’m glad it did. …
It bears repeating that chocolate, stress and dirt are not causes of acne. This article will look at the physiological chain of events that lead to acne and how specific treatments disrupt the different stages …
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 had come from a hospital background and although I worked with unusual cases (like the elderly man who got a coat hanger stuck in the opening of his penis) I never saw a case …
Brown adipose tissue is located in the neck area and is more physiologically active in this woman than in the man pictured.
We have two types of adipose (fat) tissue in our bodies: brown fat which …
The two mental health disorders that I see most often in our practice are depression and anxiety and treating these disorders require lengthy office visits especially when diagnosing and treating the patient for the first …
I took care of a close relative of mine, who in middle age, died of lung cancer. She struggled for 3 years with cancer before it took her life, but Margie never gave up despite …
The Urban Institute (UI), an independent non-partisan policy institute, created in the 1960s to examine the problems facing American cities, released a paper in October 2009, entitled, “The Cost of Failure to Enact Health Reform: …
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) recently published 2 studies on some promising new treatment for relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis (R/R MS). Both medications reduce the number of lymphocytes which play a role in the immune-mediated …
