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I see moles all day in the clinic. Everyone has one somewhere. While there are a million and one things that cause skin lesions, when you ask me to check out a mole,
I am thinking of one thing and one thing only – [Read more…]
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I could tell that she was wrestling with divulging something by the long pause and hesitation when I asked her if there were any changes in her life.
The problem at hand was a new rise in her liver enzymes. They were normal 6 months ago and have now tripled. It was my duty to find out why, so I kept prodding. [Read more…]
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There are a myriad of symptoms included in this time period of hormonal transition generally called peri-menopause (literally meaning the time around menses stop).
It can be confusing to determine but remember ALL women go through this stage of change though some have a rougher time than others. [Read more…]
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The issue of sunshine versus sunscreen is like being between a rock and a hard place.
You have all heard of how exposure to sun is bad for you. You’ve been told that sun exposure will kill you and that sun exposure causes skin cancer.
It’s only logically to see sunscreen as the savior from a painful, untimely death from skin cancer. [Read more…]
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We have recently been hearing a lot about Vit D (D2, D3) but did you know that it is more accurate to categorize it as an hormone? Thus it is relatively difficult to ingest enough of it naturally in foods and there is a complicated component where the sun plays a vital role in its synthesis.
This vitamin/hormone is essential in many bodily functions and in it’s most severe deficiency levels can contribute to a variety of ailments like osteoporosis (thinning bones) and even depression. [Read more…]
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It seems fears of brain cancer from cell phones being held close to the head is waning but instead we are hearing more about the much more likely health complication from holding your head in a flexed (bent forward) position for hours at a times, day after day. [Read more…]
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A sizable number of us will develop cysts in the breast at some point and may have to seek medical care for the condition.
The problem with breast cysts is that we often can’t say for sure that it’s a cyst (especially if you are over 30) without putting you through the wringer to rule out breast cancer. [Read more…]
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Dressing up when we know we would be asked to take our clothes off is something we women do well. Don’t ask me why.
I have had a tough time convincing my female patients to kill two birds with one stone by getting an overdue pap smear done during a routine clinic visit because they did not feel groomed for the undress. [Read more…]
Convenience drives the market (or shall we say the Food and Drug Administration- FDA) to release certain medications to be over the counter.
Often, I see the misuse of these items bring patients into the clinic with complaints from the side effects. With prescription medications, there is a finite supply given to you. [Read more…]
Do you just hurt all over? Or do you ache and tired all the time? Does seemingly light touch make you scream in pain and agony?
If this is you, chances are you’ve tried everything you know to make this physical (and sometimes emotional) pain stop. Your good days are fairly decent but your bad days put you in a state of despair. [Read more…]
