The use of hormones in the post-menopause period remains controversial due to concerns about breast cancer & heart attack issues primarily. The pendulum has swung back and forth over the past few decades, with hormone use in post-menopause generally frowned upon for any extended period. That said, I am a supporter of hormone use in …
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Coumadin has had a virtual monopoly as an oral anticoagulant since it was first used in 1940 at Wisconsin General Hospital. Discovered accidentally when scientists investigated hemorrhaging of livestock who ate spoiled sweet clover when grazing, it took a decade to isolate dicoumarol and use it in the clinic. Initially showing success in preventing blood …
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With all the advertising during Football games about LOW “T”…..the topic is becoming increasingly on the mind of men, and women. It all began several years ago when Oprah said she was using some testosterone cream to improve her sex life, and that she ‘swears by it’….and the floodgates opened. Testosterone is the ‘male’ hormone, …
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About 10 million people worldwide live with Parkinson’s disease, and currents of those people want help in dealing with this illness without waiting months for an appointment or thumbing through hundreds of pages of difficult medical terminology. Our state of Arizona is home to one of the finest Parkinson’s doctors in the world, Dr. Abraham …
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