COMPLICATIONS OF BODY ART

  It is important to make sure the person performing art on your body has passed a course in hygiene and safety. Complications can happen: mild to severe infections (including resistant staph,

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BLOOD CLOTS AND DEPRESSION

  A new study showed that those on anti-depressants had a higher risk for clots in their veins, usually the legs. Is this from the medications or the depression increasing the risk?  Depressed

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MALAWI EDITION

  I am working in Malawi, Africa at a Loma Linda Hospital to substitute for the general physicians who are on vacation. Here are a few of the medical problems I found in late June and early Ju

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LGBTQ TEENS ARE STRESSED

LGBTQ TEENS ARE STRESSED Here is a paste of a Medscape article: In a national survey of about 12,000 LGBTQ teens, 77% reported feeling depressed, and 70% reported having feelings of worthles

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Meth and HIV

The first week of March I attended CROI in Boston with about 4,000 others from around the world. Here is second article of my annual AIDS update from the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic I

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FLU SHOTS AVAILABLE

You can get them at a pharmacy if you have insurance. Otherwise the clinics usually get them by mid-October. Reactions to the flu shot are your body fighting the flu virus pieces in the vaccine. Th

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MALAWI UPDATE

I am at the Loma Linda Hospital in Malawi for a couple of weeks substituting for the regular internist and family medicine physicians who are on vacation in Southern California. So this is my yearly M

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