Posted by: admin on: August 9, 2011
Folks across the country are paying hard cash for total body scans, abdominal aortic aneurysm testing, CAT coronary artery scans and carotid artery evaluations to prevent disease or find important lesions early. Ordinary patients don’t understand about pre-test probability and positive and negative predictive values. A critical principle of proper diagnostic testing can be summarized in […]
Posted by: admin on: August 8, 2011
What is Alcoholism? Alcoholism is a primary chronic disease with genetic, psycho-social and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. It is characterized by continuous or periodic impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol despite adverse consequences and distortions of thinking, mostly denial. Let us look at this definition of alcoholism and see […]
Posted by: admin on: July 29, 2011
I see a lot of patients who are sent to me for evaluation of dizziness. On the surface you wouldn’t think a cardiologist would have much to do with a symptom that relates more to the head than the heart, but there is some logic to it—poor blood flow to the brain could lead to […]
Posted by: admin on: July 8, 2011
By law, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dietary Guidelines for Americans are reviewed and updated every 5 years to keep our health moving forward. The new guidelines, Dietary Guidelines for America, are different from previous versions in several ways. They are addressing a nation where most are undernourished when it comes to several […]
Posted by: admin on: April 23, 2011
By law, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dietary Guidelines for Americans are reviewed and updated every 5 years to keep our health moving forward. The new guidelines, Dietary Guidelines for America, are different from previous versions in several ways. They are addressing a nation where most are undernourished when it comes to several key […]