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It was President Eisenhower’s heart attack during office, in 1955, that resulted in the US declaring a war on heart disease, just as Beau Biden’s death from cancer has inspired President Obama to declare a war on cancer this year. Back in 1955, there was very little that could be done to prevent and treat …
Dr. Scott Sporer is a Chicago-area orthopedist who does knee and hip replacement. He just came to my attention when a patient told me about her experience getting her knee replaced by him, back home. We have a lot of excellent physicians here in The Valley. Many of them are listed on our Recommended Doctors …
OK….so I’m a cow! I love meat. That said, it’s probably not the worst thing you could be….you could be a sugar cube! Along those lines, a new book on weight loss and dieting, Always Hungry, focuses on reducing fats and carbohydrates to reset your appetite and help loose weight. In a modified ‘high …
Three cheers for a great scientist and humanitarian….Linus Pauling. His Day is celebrated on February 28th in the state of Oregon, because Pauling, a two-time Nobel Prize winner, is a native-son of Portland, and got his undergraduate degree at Oregon State University. He both discovered the specific abnormality in the hemoglobin molecule that causes sickle-cell …
Expressing Love is the 6th of the keys to good health, as I’ve written about in THE KEYS: 8 Principles for Achieving Better Health. So….I was quite intrigued by a recent article in the New York Times that gave specific instructions on how to fall in love with someone, based on a scientific study done …
I received a lot of sage advice during my Hopkins and Iowa training, most of it ‘medical pearls’ related to diagnosis and treatment, rarely was it related to deeper issues on death and dying. Of course, we experience a great deal of drama every day on the wards, but you learned through osmosis, not …
That’s what Dr. Harold Bornstein, the physician for Donald Trump said about his physical examination and findings. No matter your political persuasion, you have to love this ‘old time doc’ who is willing to make such a bold statement. Given the objective and scientific nature of the training of medical physicians, hearing such an …
This is a great question…..unfortunately, I don’t have a great answer for you. With all of us considering new year’s resolutions to eat better & lose weight, we are all wondering how to approach our new diet. As this recent video from the New York Times indicates…the science of healthy diet remains confused and obscure. …
Who drinks the most coffee? I’m not sure….but among physicians, it is the orthopedic surgeons who do. So says a recent study of coffee habits among physicians. The stimulating effects of caffeine from coffee have been known in the Western World since 1582 and if you are like me, you use your share of this …
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It’s SOUP! By that , I mean…it’s FLU SEASON. Two weeks ago I indicated that the flu season was going to be delayed compared to the past two years, but the last two weeks ha proved me wrong. We have had two weeks of increasing cases of documented flu. We’ve seen very little in the …
No….not a Gin & Tonic….but a tonic for what ails you….and that tonic is volunteering. In my book THE KEYS, my 7th Key is ‘Do For Others’. This is one of the best ways I know to feel better and to get healthier. I think the positive effects of having a purpose in life goes …
Breeding infertility into the mosquitos that transmit malaria could be a simple fix for this world-wide killer of millions, and it’s coming to pass due to the genetic enigineering technique we have spoken of over and over again in the past months….CRISPR. This time, scientists have figured out a way to pass on infertility genes …
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When I would get in the way of something going on at home, when I’d stand between my parents and interrupt their line of view when talking they would say, ” You make a better door than you do a window….even though you are a pane (play on words…..old-fashioned fun…!) I thought of this funny …
CRISPR is the code-word for a new and simple technique that allows editing of the genetic code in any living organism, even humans. This technique is about to revolutionize biology and that has many scientists worried about the potential for experimentation that will have profound effects on our species. I spoke of Crispr in the …
As students at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, we were well aware that the Wilmer Eye Institute, our ophthalmology clinic, was considered the finest in the world. People would come from across the globe for to have specialty evaluation and to be given their sight back. But beyond the individual treatment, we heard that our …
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