Year: 2026
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Heart Disease
CHOLESTEROL GUIDELINES CHANGE AGAIN
We’re all keenly aware of the role cholesterol plays in the development of arteriosclerosis. It forms the core, or the…
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Infectious Diseases
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PATIENT? No. 2
This is the second in a series of articles titled “What’s wrong with this patient?” In it, I will present…
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Drugs & Medications
LOW-DOSE ORAL MINOXIDIL FOR MALE PATTERN BALDNESS
Androgenetic alopecia is the scientific name given to male-pattern baldness. Alopecia is the medical term for hair loss of any…
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Neurology
WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PATIENT?
As Jim Nantz, the long-time CBS sports announcer, always begins, “Hello, friends!” DrGOpines.com is approaching the end of its 7th…
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Procedures
I’LL PASS ON THIS PROCEDURE
No thanks! I’m not interested. I’ll figure out another solution for this problem! These are my feelings about a new…
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Heart Disease
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AND STENTS
I just read an article on medscape.com that referred to changes that may be coming in the long-term prevention and…
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Drugs & Medications
ADDITIVES IN ILLICIT DRUGS
If you didn’t already know, makers of illicit drugs include “additives and contaminants” in the opioid drugs they produce to…
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Drugs & Medications
GLP-1’S AND ALCOHOL
Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1’s) have been discussed in this blog numerous times. This post is another that focuses on…
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Heart Disease
THE CORNEAL REFLEX
There is an important, but simple, diagnostic procedure doctors do frequently but don’t talk about very much. This procedure, called…
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Drugs & Medications
ELI LILLY DOESN’T MISS AN OPPORTUNITY
Eli Lilly and company, the pharmaceutical giant headquartered in Indianapolis, does not miss an opportunity. They have top notch researchers…
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