Procedures
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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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TREATING A MISCARRIAGE IS NOT A CRIMINAL ACT!
I have seen numerous political ads on TV, recently, alleging that doctors who treat women after a spontaneous miscarriage are…
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ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY (ECT)
ECT, electroconvulsive therapy, is one of the more controversial treatments in all of medicine. Clinicians, administrators, psychiatrists, proponents, detractors, and…
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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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HEMORRHOIDS
Four years ago, I wrote a blog on common anorectal problems. Among those, the most common was hemorrhoids. In one…
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WHAT IS AN ANEURYSM?
Surely you’ve heard someone talk about having an aneurysm or you knew someone who did. When you heard that word,…
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MASSAGE THERAPY: A SIMPLE PLEASURE
Who doesn’t like a massage? I certainly do! But there are a lot of people who don’t. They say it…
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WHITE TEETH
Many people today have a significant focus on personal appearance. You might not think so from the way segments of…
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TESTS FOR DEMENTIA
In most cases, the family physician or internist is the first medical professional seen by a patient suspected of having…
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ANTI-ARRHYTHMIC DRUGS AFTER ABLATION: DO THEY HELP?
If you’re one of the ever-increasing number of folks who have undergone ablation for atrial fibrillation, you may be wondering,…
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