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May 26, 2008

Family Physicians in Earthquake Ravaged China – Report #2

Last week I posted a report from my friend, Chris Place, M.D., from the Hope Medical Clinic is Macao, China, about a team he was leading […]

May 24, 2008

Team of Family Physicians in Myanmar – Report #5

Here is the 5th update on the brave young team of family physicians who crossed the border from Thailand into Myanmar to serve the victims of […]

May 23, 2008

Health Headlines

McCain Appears Cancer-Free, Healthy Experts Revisit Food Additives and ADHD Woman Wakes After Heart Stopped, Rigor Mortis Set In Oral hormone therapy pills double clot risk: […]

May 23, 2008

Dr. Walt’s Take on the Health Headlines – May 23, 2008

Here are Dr. Walt’s takes on today’s health headlines McCain Appears Cancer-Free, Healthy Three-time cancer thriver (not just survivor), John McCain appears cancer-free, has a strong […]

May 23, 2008

Tragedy in the Stephen Curtis Chapman Family

By now, I suspect most of you have read or heard about the incredibly painful and tragic news in what was meant to be a […]

May 23, 2008

Team of Family Physicians in Myanmar – Report #4

Here is the 4th update on the brave young team of family physicians who crossed the border from Thailand into Myanmar to serve the victims […]

May 21, 2008

Health Headlines

High-Magnification Endoscopes May Revolutionize GI Imaging Kennedy’s Brain Tumor ‘Very Bad News’ U.S. ads push patients to shop for hospitals Germany Officials Outraged Over British Vote […]

May 21, 2008

Podcast 3

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November 14, 2011

Federal panel recommends pap smear every three years

A federal panel says healthy women do NOT need to get a pap smear every year after all. While many physicians, including me, strongly support the […]

November 15, 2011

Pediatrics group warns against secondhand TV in kids under two

In continuing coverage, USA Today reports that in the journal Pediatrics, “the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for the first time included warnings about ‘secondhand television’ in […]

November 15, 2011

Study associates profanity on TV with foul-mouthed children

USA Today reported that according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics, television may be turning “children into fountains of four-letter words.”

November 16, 2011

Study finds no link between cell phones, cancer

Major media sources provided coverage of a large study from Denmark that found no association between cell phone use and elevated cancer rates.

November 17, 2011

Will new tests promote abortion of an ‘undesired sex’ baby?

Art Caplan, MD, is a physician and bioethicist, who is prochoice, but shares the significant reservations I have about a new blood test that helps a […]

November 17, 2011

Marijuana causes brain changes similar to those in schizophrenia

HealthDay reports, “Marijuana causes disruptions in concentration and memory similar to those that occur in people with schizophrenia, according to a new study” published in the Journal […]