Research claims that up to 10 % of pregnant women develop a vaginal yeast infection. Fortunately, most of them respond very well to topical anti-fungal treatment. However, a small percentage do not respond to topical anti-fungals and some, unfortunately, go on to develop chronic recurrent infections. In such cases, some pregnant women turn to oral […]
It’s all based on anecdotes, and anecdotes are notoriously unreliable, but news items are claiming that doctors around British Columbia are reporting that since the spate of measles cases that has erupted recently in BC has been so much in the news, many teens who had not been vaccinated against measles as young children have […]
A recent Chinese study has concluded that a diet high in allium, a food grouping that includes leeks, onions and garlic, is linked to a lower risk of colo-rectal cancer. And according to the researchers, the trend in this study showed that the higher the intake of allium veggies, the lower that risk. No word, […]
Prolonged sitting is bad for you. And every day it seems an new study comes out confirming that fact. In the latest report from something called the OPACH study, a group of researchers set out to analyze the activity level (or lack of same) of over 5500 post-menopausal women who had not had a heart […]
Osteoporosis (OP) is often considered a woman’s disease because it is true that more women than men end up with OP. However, as men age, we also lose bone, and the problem for aging men with OP is that family docs often overlook that possibility in their aging male patients and since men don’t pay […]
In The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Tuco , who is submerged in a bathtub and is about to be shot by a man who is hunting him, shoots the man first and then offers a great motto to live by: “If you’re gonna shoot, shoot. Don’t talk.” Which is a great way to […]
A study just published in the journal, Circulation, is worrisome news for anyone who loves their diet drinks. In this study of over 80,000 post-menopausal women, regular consumption of diet drinks (defined as 2 or more diet drinks a day) was linked to a significantly increased risk of strokes. Why? Could be something in the […]
You’d think that if anyone needed antibiotics in hospital, it would be people like me, those suffer from with asthma and are thus at higher risk of serious lung infections, and who should, you would think, be especially needy of an antibiotic when hospitalized for an asthmatic exacerbation In fact, most doctors think that’s true […]
For all those millions of you who think that just because some drug is sold over-the-counter, there is no reason to worry about it, here’s something important to worry one of the most popular class of OTC drugs, what are knows as non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDS), drugs like ibuprofen and naproxen. In a concerning study published […]
The Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos) is an ongoing (over 20 years now) population-based study of community-dwelling adults over the age of 25 (that was then; most are way middle-aged or even older now, obviously) which has taught us a ton about the impact that osteoporosis (OP) and consequent fractures have on the lives of […]