The New York Times is reporting that Trump’s personal physician Dr. Bornstein has recently revealled that Trump is on the drug Propecia for hair loss. If you are a regular reader of my blog this will be of no surprise to you. In August 2016 when I took Bornstein’s letter apart after it has been given but …
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Raise cigarette taxes $2 a pack to pay for new lung cancer screening guidelines
The U.S. Preventative Services Task force has issued a new recommendation: annual CT scan screening for lung cancer for high-risk smokers between the ages of 55 and 80. Who is a high risk smoker? Anyone with a 30-pack year smoking history (meaning a pack a day for 30 years or 2 packs a day for 15 …
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My urine culture is negative, can I still have a bladder infection?
In a word, yes. And this is a difficult concept for many doctors to get because we have long been taught that the gold standard is culture. Let’s back up a little. These are the symptoms of a bladder infection: needing to empty your bladder a lot (urinary frequency) when you gotta go, you gotta …
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The risks of CT scans: what an informed patient should know
More than 60 million CT scans are performed every year in the United States. A CT scan uses a computer to assemble multiple x-rays taken in rapid sequence to produce a far more detailed image than a conventional x-ray. CT scans are helpful in the diagnosis and management of many medical conditions. All tests have …
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