Year: 2023
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Preventive Medicine
LIFE EXPECTANCY SHORTENS AGAIN!
COVID-19 and drug overdoses have once again resulted if a further lowering of the life expectancy of American adults. From…
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Office Practice Info
GLOOM AND DOOM FOR INDEPENDENT PHYSICIANS
GLOOM AND DOOM FOR INDEPENDENT PHYSICIANS Independent physicians are those who work solely for their patients and are not employed…
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Preventive Medicine
MORE QUICK FACTS FOR A HEALTHIER LIFE
CHRONIC CONSTIPATION: The best treatments are bulk laxatives and osmotic laxatives. MIRALAX (polyethylene glycol) is the…
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Infectious Diseases
RABIES: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
RABIES: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW The following is a real life scenario I faced a number of years ago. It…
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Drugs & Medications
DRUG OVERDOSE ANTIDOTE IS OTC!
Last December, I reported the FDA had announced that naloxone (Narcan) was going over-the-counter. Well, it has. Naloxone has been…
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Mental Health
TEEN VIOLENCE AT RECORD LEVELS
Adolescents and teenagers today aren’t the “happy-go-lucky” youth of my generation. I grew up in the 1950’s and 60’s and…
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Preventive Medicine
STOOL-BASED SCREENING FOR COLORECTAL CANCER
If you’re over age 45, or even 50, and know you should have a colonoscopy but haven’t, you have several…
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Preventive Medicine
FRUITS AND VEGGIES IN YOUR DIET
If you’ve ever watched “My 600-lb Life” on The Learning Channel (TLC) you are familiar with the comments I’m about…
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COVID-19
MOST COVID-19 DEATHS WORLDWIDE WERE AMONG OLDER PEOPLE.
The high mortality rate from COVID-19 among the elderly was a fact everyone knew, but a lot of people ignored.…
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Sports Medicine Info
DEMENTIA PUGILISTICA
After I published the recent blog correlating football-related concussions with cognitive decline in old age, one loyal reader asked if…
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