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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Senate report links Avandia to increased risk of heart attacks, death. What am I telling my Avandia patients to do?
In a front-page story, the New York Times reported, “Hundreds of people taking Avandia [rosiglitazone], a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports.” A Senate Finance Committee review cites internal FDA … Continue reading
Posted in Men's Health, Woman's Health
Tagged Actos, Avandia, diabetes, pioglitazone, rosiglitazone
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Osteopathic care may ease late-pregnancy back pain
Low back pain in pregnancy is extremely common and manipulative therapy has been shown in a number of studies to be very helpful — especially for a condition called sacroiliac subluxation. Now, comes a story from Reuters Health confirming that … Continue reading
Posted in Woman's Health
Tagged back pain in pregnancy, low back manipulation, low back pain, manipulation, osteopathic manipulation, pregnancy
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Are heels OK for little girls? Parents, doctors debate!
The AP had a report carried in USA Today that I thought you parents of girls might find helpful. Basically, not only do I not recommend heels for girls, I don’t recommend them for women. You can read more about … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, Parenting, Woman's Health
Tagged foot pain, heels, high heels, shoe wear
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Obese Children Twice as Likely to Die Young
In my Amazon.com best-selling book, SuperSized Kids: How to protect your child from the obesity threat, I predicted that if we did not stem the epidemic of childhood obesity, that our children could become the first generation in American history … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, Heart Health, Nutritional Health, Parenting
Tagged childhood obesity, cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, obese children, Obesity, pediatric obesity, pre-diabetes, premature death, preventing cardiovascular disease, preventing diabetes, preventing heart disease
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One in five US teens may have abnormal lipid levels — most related to overweight or obesity
The Washington Post reports that “one out of every five US teenagers has a cholesterol level that increases the risk of heart disease,” according to a new study published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. For “the study … … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, Heart Health, Nutritional Health
Tagged childhood obesity, cholesterol, lipid profile, obese children, pediatric obesity
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Vitamin D May Lower Colon Cancer Risk
Soaking in more sunlight and drinking more dairy may help you ward off colon cancer according to a report in Medscape. Researchers in Europe have found that people with abundant levels of vitamin D — the so-called sunshine vitamin — … Continue reading
Posted in Nutritional Health
Tagged colon cancer, colon cancer prevention, vitamin D, vitamin D supplements
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Daily Calcium Plus Vitamin D Supplements May Reduce Fracture Risk
MedScape reports that daily supplements of calcium plus vitamin D, but not of vitamin D alone, are associated with significantly reduced fracture risk, according to the results of a patient level-pooled analysis reported in the January 12 issue of the … Continue reading
Posted in Nutritional Health
Tagged bone fracture, calcium, calcium supplements, preventing diabetes, vitamin D, vitamin D supplements
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Farmed or wild fish: Which is healthier?
CNN has a nice report about a question that I’m often asked, “Which is healthier — farmed or wild fish?” These days, it’s hard to know what underwater life you should be eating. There’s talk of great benefits from fish-originating … Continue reading
Posted in Nutritional Health
Tagged farmed fish, farmed salmon, fish, fish oil, omega-3, omega-3 fatty acids, salmon, wild salmon
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Sexual satisfaction is a complex process that vexes many women and their doctors
Continuing our Valentine’s Day theme of sexual satisfaction in marriage, I thought you might find this article from the Washington Post of interest. It’s penned by Daphne Miller, a family physician, who is the author of “The Jungle Effect: The Healthiest … Continue reading
What to Do When Heart Disease Hurts Your Sex Life
This article, from Health.com, will be, I would think, very helpful for married couples where one or both spouses has cardiovascular disease. It answers a number of common questions my patients ask: If movies and soap operas are anything to … Continue reading
Posted in Heart Health, Marriage and Family Health
Tagged Heart Health, libido, sex drive, sexual health, sexual satisfaction, sexuality
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Poll Shows Majority of Americans Say Abstinence Effective, Want Parents Involved
Abstinence-only program helps kids postpone sex A new Rasmussen poll shows a majority of Americans believe abstinence education programs are effect and a commanding majority would rather have parents than schools teaching sex education, according to a report in LifeNews.com. … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, Parenting
Tagged abstinence, abstinence education, abstinence-only sex education, sexual health, sexuality
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Herbals and Heart Health
The folks at Natural Standard recently sent out a notice of a significant review in the cardiology literature on the potential interactions between herbs and heart medications. A news release on the study can be found here. This new analysis suggests … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Heart Health
Tagged aspirin, capsicum, garlic, Ginkgo Biloba, ginseng, grapefruit, grapefruit juice, heart disease, heart disease prevention, herb, herbal remedies, herbs, licorice, St. John's wort, warfarin, yohimbine
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Acupuncture found lacking for fibromyalgia
Reuters Health is reporting on a new study examining the treatment of fibromyalgia with acupuncture. Indeed, acupuncture may provide some temporary pain relief for people with fibromyalgia, but does not help with fatigue, sleep problems, or physical function, according to … Continue reading
Colon Cleansing and Body Detoxification: Any Evidence of Benefit or Harm?
Claims of marked health benefits from “detoxification” have stimulated public interest in colonic cleansing and generated a multimillion-dollar industry promoting oral agents, colonic hydrotherapy, or enema therapies designed to empty the bowel. Questions about colonic cleansing are among the most … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Nutritional Health
Tagged colon cleansing, colonic, colonics, detox, detoxification
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Consuming one serving of chocolate every week may reduce stroke risk
Just in time for your Valentine’s weekend, a new report indicating that chocolate may both cut your risk of a stroke and reduce the risk of death after a stroke. And, the effect may only require one small serving of … Continue reading
Posted in General Health, Heart Health, Nutritional Health
Tagged chocolate, dark chocolate, stroke, stroke prevention
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Seven Foods for Better Sex
For this Valentine’s Day weekend, some more advice for our married readers from my friends at Health.com, written by Julie Upton, RD, on how you can improve your diet and your sex life at the same time. Knock out two birds with … Continue reading
Posted in General Health, Men's Health, Nutritional Health, Woman's Health
Tagged almonds, arugula, asparagus, avacado, chocolate, citrus, dark chocolate, figs, grapefruit, herring, mandarin oranges, oysters, pink grapefruit, salmon, seafood, sex, sexual health, strawberries, wild salmon
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3 Lifestyle Habits That Can Boost Your Sex Drive
For this Valentine’s Day weekend, some advice for our married readers from my friends at Health.com on how you can not only boost your sex drive, but become more highly healthy at the same time: 1. Get plenty of exercise … Continue reading
New Drug Ellaone Billed as Better Morning After Pill, But It Causes Abortions
LifeNews.com is reporting that abortion advocates are pushing a new drug that they say is an expanded morning after pill, or emergency contraception. However, pro-life doctors and advocates say Ellaone, also known as Ulipristal, works as an abortion drug and … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Children's Health, Woman's Health
Tagged abortifacient, abortifacient contraceptives, abortifacient effect, BCP, birth control pill, Ellaone, emergency birth control, morning after pill, plan B, Ulipristal
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Fish oil may stave off psychiatric illness
The AP reports that “fish oil pills may be able to save some young people with signs of mental illness from descending into schizophrenia,” according to a study published in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. For the … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Medicine, Mental Health
Tagged bipolar illness, fish oil, Mental Health, mental illness, omega-3, omega-3 fatty acids, psychological distress, psychosis
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Lancet formally retracts paper linking vaccine to autism
U.S. study clears measles vaccine of autism link One of the world’s most respected medical journals, The Lancet, is formally retracting an article that sparked a fierce debate and falsely linked autism to vaccines. The 1998 study linked the vaccine for … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, Parenting
Tagged autism, autism spectrum disorder, mmr
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Vegetative patient “talks” using brain waves
According to a report in Reuters, man in a deeply unconscious state for five years has been able to communicate with doctors using just his thoughts in a study scientists say is a “game changer” for care of vegetative state … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics, Mental Health
Tagged consciousness, functional MRI, minimally conscious patient, Terri Schiavo, vegetative state
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Brain scans of patients in vegetative state reveal some activity
A stunning new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that many “patients in a vegetative state … are more conscious than previously believed. They showed brain activity when questioned about familiar names or given instructions.” In … Continue reading
Posted in Bioethics
Tagged consciousness, functional MRI, minimally conscious patient, traumatic brain injury, vegetative state
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Abstinence-only program helps kids postpone sex
Reuters Health is reporting that abstinence-only sex education can work – if it’s based on established strategies for helping young people change their attitudes about other types of risky behavior like smoking and drinking, stunning new research shows. Dr. David … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, Parenting
Tagged abstinence, abstinence education, abstinence-only sex education, National Abstinence Education Association, sex education, teen sex
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Half of teen girls have STIs by 2 years of first sex
Reuters Health is reporting that within 2 years of having sex for the first time, half of teenage girls may be at least one of three common sexually transmitted infections (STIs), according to results of a study published in December. … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, Parenting
Tagged chlamydia, GC, gonorrhea, sexually transmitted disease, sexually transmitted infection, STI, teen health, teen sex, trichomonas
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Media Alert – Larimores Discuss Sexual Abuse on “Focus on the Family” Broadcast today and tomorrow
The Larimores (Barb, Kate, Scott, and I) will be on a two-day Focus on the Family Daily Radio Broadcast discussing the topic “Finding Healing from Sexual Abuse” on Monday, February 1 and Tuesday, February 2. Information about listening to the broadcast … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Health, Parenting
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