Preventive Medicine
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MEDICAL NEWS BRIEFS #25
More Studies Confirm SEMAGLUTIDE’S Superiority: Additional scientific studies have once again shown semaglutide’s superiority to all other GLP-1 receptor agonists…
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NEW APPROACH TO TREATING HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
For decades, the “step-wise care” approach to treating high blood pressure (HBP) was in vogue. This approach recommended starting with…
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AN INJECTION FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE?
I bet you thought high blood pressure was just that—high blood pressure! Well, it is, but what the heck is…
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MEDICAL NEWS BRIEFS #22
There are three (3) categories of Blood Pressure: New European guidelines for high blood pressure (HBP), hypertension define three categories.…
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DIAGNOSING ALZHEIMER’S JUST GOT EASIER
In many previous blogs about Alzheimer’s Disease and dementias, I have said that Alzheimer’s was a diagnosis of exclusion. That…
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WHAT DO I DO ABOUT PALPITATIONS?
As unsettling as they may be, palpitations aren’t necessarily a bad thing! Palpitation is the common term applied to that…
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MEDICAL NEWS BRIEFS #21
When are you too old for a colonoscopy? For years, the recommendation of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) and the…
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MEDICAL NEWS BRIEFS #20
Rates of Sudden Death After Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction): After an acute heart attack (myocardial infarction), sudden death rates have…
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HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND DEMENTIA
Here’s some more good news. A recent scientific study suggests that “more time spent in a healthy blood pressure range…
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ULTRA-PROCESSED FOODS AREN’T ALWAYS BAD
Concern about processed foods and the preservatives added to numerous food items have long been foremost on the minds of…
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