As many on Dailystrength know, recent genetics discoveries are expanding basic science research into the basic mechanism of health and disease. Over the past decade, gene alterations conferring an ... Read More »

1) Demerol: I'll never forget a lecture I attended as a resident by a well known toxicologist who said Demerol should be pulled from the market...that it doesn't work any better than any ... Read More »

Aches and pains, swelling, clicking, popping and soreness in our joints and muscles are common complaints in doctor's offices and at dinner parties. Listed here are common orthopedic ailments I ... Read More »

1) Do I need an annual physical?

 

As many of you know Medicare does NOT cover annual physicals... so the question is do you really need ... Read More »

Every week I read several medicine journals and I've decided each month to pick an interesting and quirky study to blog about. This one caught my eye. Who decided to address this question? The ... Read More »

 

Vitamin D is necessary for a wide variety of biological functions such as bone and mineral metabolism, muscle function, and immunity. As many of you know even in ... Read More »

The other day I had a client refer to her medical doctor as, "the kind that doesn't run out of the room when you start talking." This ... Read More »

As much as we hear about breast MRI and other new modalities for breast cancer screening it gets confusing for people to sort out what is best for them. To keep it simple, for most of us ... Read More »

We have started to see patients in clinic this week with symptoms of common viral upper respiratory infections and many are asking: should I be tested for Swine flu? Remember by far the majority of ... Read More »