Year: 2024
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Drugs & Medications
TREATMENT OF SORE THROAT
When it comes to medical protocols, the symbolic pendulum swings back and forth all the time. Many concepts in medicine…
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Human Interest
IRVINGTON
Recently, a friend who had been reading about my youth activities on DrGOpines.com, pointed out that I was actually writing…
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Human Interest
THE IRON SKILLET
In life, “nothing lasts forever” and “all good things must come to the end.” These are trite cliches’, but they…
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Drugs & Medications
TOBACCO USE AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE
It surprises me in today’s culture that anyone starts smoking. So much information about the harms of smoking is in…
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Aging
HEARING LOSS: MORE DISABLING THAN YOU THINK
Being hard of hearing is far more disabling than people think. Folks who are deaf from birth live in a…
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Aging
BEERS CRITERIA FOR MEDICATION USE IN OLDER PATIENTS: DANGEROUS COMBINATIONS
Until I read the April 2024 issue of American Family Physician, I was unaware the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) had…
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Cancer
”EIGHT PACKETS OF SWEET ‘N LOW?!”
I have a friend who has a rather unusual habit. It’s a natural thing to him, but it definitely gets…
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Heart Disease
CARDIAC EJECTION FRACTION
Do you understand what is meant by heart failure? As the name implies, people with heart failure have a heart…
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Diabetes
GLP-1’S BETTER UNDERSTOOD, STILL EXPENSIVE!
Six months ago I published two articles on the use and side effects of Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor drugs. GLP-1’s,…
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Drugs & Medications
MEDSCAPE NEWS
Statins Have Another Use: Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), be it the oral or transdermal form, places women at a greater…
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