Dr. G Opines
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Drugs & Medications
MONITOR PATIENTS ON GLP-1’S
Glucagon Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1RA’s) are drugs you don’t prescribe for a patient and then forget about. They are…
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Drugs & Medications
HOME INR TESTING FOR WARFARIN
Are you one of the 6 million Americans who have atrial fibrillation? If so, do you take a blood thinner…
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Aging
BEST AND SAFEST DRUGS FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
Drugs designed to improve the dementia found in Alzheimer’s sufferers have not lived up to their “billing.” By that, I…
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Mental Health
OCD: OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
All of us, at one time or another, wondered if we were “OCD.” That time when you couldn’t remember if…
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Diabetes
DOES METFORMIN AFFECT DIABETES?
Metformin is the first drug physicians have prescribed for the treatment of diabetes for several decades. It has been the…
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Human Interest
GRILLING: IS IT SLOWLY KILLING ME?
In Arizona, cooking outside with my gas grill is possible year round. Until I became physically unable to grill chicken,…
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Drugs & Medications
TREATING FEVER IN CHILDREN
Fever! It’s one of the more common reasons doctors receive calls at 2:00 or 3:00 am. Viral and bacterial infections…
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Drugs & Medications
WHY AVOID ASPIRIN IN CHILDREN?
In a recent blog, I wrote about the use of acetaminophen and ibuprofen for the treatment of fever in children.…
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Cancer
THE GALLERI TEST: “PROCEED WITH CAUTION”
On two previous occasions, I have written blogs about the MCED (Multi-Cancer Early Detection) test known commercially as the Galleri…
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Human Interest
HAS I.U. BASKETBALL LOST ITS WAY?
The flow of information about Indiana University basketball coming from Simon-Skjodt Assembly Hall has changed from a tsunami in the…
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