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,
Read The Full ArticleAsk The Doctor ANTIBIOTICS, NOT SURGERY FOR APPENDICITIS? A new study confirms that about two thirds of patients can be treated without surgery who have appendicitis. Some of these might have a fu
Read The Full ArticleA 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
Read The Full ArticleHundreds of people have been hospitalized due to taking rat poison without knowing it was in the synthetic Marijuana/Cannabis. The main symptom is unexplained bleeding. They can die vomitin
Read The Full ArticleI 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
Read The Full ArticleLGBTQ 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
Read The Full ArticleThe 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
Read The Full ArticleThe first week of March I attended CROI in Boston with about 4,000 others from around the world. Here is first article of my annual AIDS update from the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic In
Read The Full ArticleFoods that are high in fats and carbohydrates and salt, frozen meals, reconstituted meats such as salami, and snacks that are stable on the shelf for a long time also contain substances that
Read The Full ArticleThe HPV group that causes genital warts and cancer was found in a survey of a huge population to be in 11.5% of men and 3.2% of women. That would make 11 million men and 3.2 million women. It causes g
Read The Full ArticleFlu is early this year and has killed at least 10 in California as of mid-December; these people were younger than 65. Flu shots protect most of us from the 4 deadly flus predicted to hit th
Read The Full ArticleA new study showed that spirit alcohols (tequila, gin, whiskey, vodka…) are more likely to cause aggression. The study had nearly 30,000 subjects who were asked about positive and negative e
Read The Full ArticleSeveral studies confirm that exercise is a treatment and prevention for depression and anxiety. One to two hours a week is the minimum. It doesn’t have to be super-intense. My understanding is that yo
Read The Full ArticleYou 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
Read The Full ArticleA gay sauna house in England found many more got tested with this method than by having someone there to do testing. RISKY ALCOHOL DRINKING INCREASING A very large US study showed that risky
Read The Full ArticleBased on a Danish study of 70,000 using databases. Of course, this wasn’t a double-blinded, randomized trial—who would agree to drink this amount or less or more each week consistently for many years!
Read The Full ArticleA study showed that those with HIV are at higher risk of mental decline if they had poor kidney function (eGFR <50, ask you provider). Less strong association was having no more education than high
Read The Full ArticleSince having HIV increases the risk of heart attack or stroke by factor of 1.5-2 maybe we should test them earlier than HIV negative people. The risks are from having chronic inflammation even if the
Read The Full ArticleI 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
Read The Full ArticleApart from the conference, for a research paper I am writing, I found an article which showed that fisting is associated with transmission of more syphilis and HIV. Maybe there are more tears of the r
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