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Do You Care About a Longer Healthier Life?
David Sinclair is a Leading Scientist on Aging at Harvard
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The Updated Case for Optimal Medical Therapy
The American College of Cardiology supports Optimal Medical Therapy (OMT) first as the standard of care for stable heart artery disease. Optimal medical…
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May 2023
Another Deadly Cowboy Commercial: This Time Aimed at Children
Many thanks to Dr. Steve Schutzer. He tipped me off to this commercial on YouTube after seeing the last post on the smoking commercial that made so many…
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It’s a Holiday. Let’s Lighten It Up a Little!
Some of you have been around long enough to remember cigarette commercials with a handsome cowboy like this smoking a cigarette. The implied message was…
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Your Employer-Sponsored Health Plan Is Required by Law to Serve You Better
Every family needs health care at some point. It is like access to clean water. For many of us, good affordable health care becomes a life-or-death…
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The Common Origins of Heart Artery Disease and Lung Cancer
You've Come a Long Way Baby!
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Screening For Lung Cancer
Please Share with Your Friends Who Smoke
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Maternal Mortality is Three Times as High in Black Women
Three times as many black women die in childbirth compared with Hispanic and white women and their cause of death is different. In black women…
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The Ghost In Your Genes: Epigenetics is the New Frontier in Medicine
Check out this brilliant video from NOVA. The DNA in every cell in the body is the same, but our cells have very different functions. Think of teeth…
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Three Hundred Drugs Are in Short Supply in the United States
There are shortages of two dozen drugs that are used in chemotherapy in addition to many other kinds of medications. Methotrexate is one of those drugs…
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Glioblastoma, Aging, and Other Chronic Diseases are Related
The last post was about my class in medical school and the president of the class, David Mrazek, who was struck down by cancer at the height of his…
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Medicine is a Team Sport: My 50th Medical School Class Reunion
We came from across the entire United States. Although we were mostly men and white, we were a very diverse group. We were from cities and farms. Some…
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