"Jennie, this is definitely not the year you should avoid the flu vaccine, and I will tell you why. But before I do, I want to remind you of the terrible symptoms that patients with the flu can experience. . ."
A recent study suggests that around the time of menopause there is a second peak of onset of eating disorders. The good news is the binge eating disorder is treatable.
Because laser light penetrates to only a certain depth within the skin, laser surgery kills only tumor cells on the surface of the skin. As a result, the laser treatment should be considered for biopsy proven superficial low-risk tumors when other techniques were unsuccessful or are poor surgical candidates.
Unlike viruses such as influenza (the flu), the Ebola virus is generally not spread from person to person in the air. Because of this, traveling on an airplane with someone with the Ebola virus would NOT put you at risk, unless there is some DIRECT PHYSICAL CONTACT with his or her bodily fluids.
"My orthopedist offered to do facet injections into my spine to see if it would help the pain and help me work with a physical therapist again. This sounds really frightening to me. What is the injection, actually?"
"I am willing to do whatever I have to do to restore my complexion. What can I do to get rid of the red patches, the broken blood vessels, the lines and wrinkles? Where do I begin?"
“An orthopedist told me I needed bilateral knee replacements because I have ‘bone on bone’ in my knees. Why didn't someone tell me that my lifelong interest in athletics and then in running would cause this kind of serious problem?”
Aside from preventing a heart attack in the short run, statins also slow, or even stop, the gradual formation of plaque that narrows the coronary arteries over a span of decades. Since there is almost no chance of getting rid of plaque once it is there, why not get a head start on prevention by starting the medication earlier, before the plaque forms?
This week, Dr. Pat Allen asks gastroenterologist Brian Landzberg to advise a patient who had to skip work for more than two weeks to deal with the diarrhea, exhaustion, and stomach cramps of “that thing that’s going around.”
A number of factors will be considered in the management of an ovarian cyst: family or personal history of cancer, symptoms associated with the cyst, and the cyst's size and characteristics.