It seems like every couple of years there is a major injury to a football player that results in either permanent disability or occasionally death. Any such injury should not be acceptable. However, when compared to injuries 100 years ago we can see that there has been great advances in safety of the player. In …
Probably the first thing that comes to your mind when you here these two words are kids either doing drug or having sex. But this particular entry has to do with parents innately knowing when something is wrong with the health of their child. I was recently reading an article in a medical journal about …
I recently attended an osteopathic conference where I was surprised to hear an internist from New York City comment on how pediatricians are routinely prescribing probiotics for children with digestive problems. Just last year the medical journal Pediatrics reviewed a study in which probiotics( Lactobacillus reuteri) were compared to simithicone (an anti-gas medication) in alleviating …
About a hundred years ago John Harvey Kellogg persuaded a great number of fluent and well educated Americans to sign themselves into his sanitarium at battle Creek, Michigan. Here they were submitted to a regime that included all-grape diets and almost hourly Bulgarian yogurt enemas and of course whole grains. At this same time millions …
It is not uncommon when I am taking the medical history of a woman for her to deny any other problems than what she has written down on the intake form. However, in the process of doing a review of systems I will ask what her periods are like. The initial response is “it’s fine”. …
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Esquire magazine runs an article entitled “What I’ve Learned”. Last year Michael J. Fox was interviewed on this topic, and I found his following comment very interesting: “I can’t always control my body the way I want to, and I can’t control when I feel good or when I don’t. I can control how clear …
Towards the end of last year there were articles appearing in the press about how the incidence of cancer was decreasing. President Bush went to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to publicly take credit for the one half of one percent drop. But what the NCI won’t tell you is that the Veterans Administration has …
Fat is not all that bad and when it comes to pregnancy it is probably good. A study conducted by two universities in the US found that curvier women have smarter children. The reason being hip fat contains polyunsaturated fatty acids critical for the development of the fetus’s brain. Terry Pfau DO, HMD
This past year there has been a lot of buzz in the news about the latest vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer. And of course the question is, do our daughters need it? Let’s look at some facts. About 13% of American women are currently infected with human papilloma virus (HPV). There are only …
In a study comparing the effectiveness of Arnica gel verses ibuprofen felt for osteoarthritis, more patients testing Arnica gel (64%) saw improvement than those testing ibuprofen gel (58.8%). This was a randomized, double-blind study in which the 204 participants had radiological studies that confirmed the presence of osteoarthritis. The conclusion of the 20 Swiss doctors …