This is a hearty, wholesome stew, packed with vegetables and flavor, just like in Grandma’s old recipe.
1 pound beef round, cubed
2 cup water
1/2 cup white onion, chopped
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 large green pepper, chopped
1/4 cup arrowroot (optional)
2 carrots, sliced
1/2 cup water (optional) Read more…
Fifth disease isn’t serious, but it has symptoms that can appear similar to those of more serious illnesses.
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Unfortunately, when a new procedure such as IDET comes out, many people jump on the bandwagon. In turn, I suspect that this procedure is being done too often and many times for the wrong reasons. The strict indications for who should have the procedure include a person who has failed an aggressive rehabilitation program and who has low back pain without significant extension of pain into the legs. Read more…
Q.I recently saw on TV a new technique for reducing and or eliminating low back pain. It involved inserting wires into a bulging disc and heating the wires under local anesthesia. This firmed the disc and reduced its size. Can you tell me anything more about this procedure? Who is performing it? Is it experimental? Read more…
Popeye loved it. While spinach might not make you stronger, studies show it may help prevent cancer.
The secret may be in the chlorophyll — the stuff that makes spinach green. Doctors say chlorophyll seems to bind to dangerous foods and keep us from absorbing them. Read more…
At the time of the second biopsy, 50% of patients had normal GPT, 41% had negative HCV RNA, and 36% had normal GPT and negative HCV RNA. Each of these changes was associated with a statistically significant improvement in Knodell index score compared with continued abnormal GPT or positive HCV RNA. Read more…
Several studies reaffirmed the benefits of longer-term IFN therapy on sustained response rates and liver histology.
Bellobuono and colleagues (Milan, Italy) compared six and twelve months of IFN alfa-2b therapy in men with an unknown serum HCV RNA after one month of treatment. One hundred thirty patients with biopsy-proven chronic hepatitis C without cirrhosis received IFN alfa-2b 5-8 MU TIW (genotype 1 a or 1b) or 3-5 MU TIW (genotype 2a or 3a) for 1 month. Read more…
Greg Spitz, M.D., a general and vascular surgeon in Aurora, Ill., has developed one of the newest ideas in varicose vein removal.
The TriVex system, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999, requires just three to four 3-millimeter incisions along the affected vein. The doctor threads a instrument under the vein that illuminates it and injects it with fluid and a mild anesthetic. Read more…
Once Dr. Judi Lee Chervenak started to learn the about the practice of obstetrics and gynecology during her training at UMDNJ – New Jersey Medical School, “I knew that there was nothing else I could possibly want to do,” she said.
Most of all, she was inspired by mentors at the medical school who had a spirit of excellence, integrity and progress in women’s healthcare. She went on to do a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at New York University and a fellowship at New Jersey Medical School in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Read more…
The answer is probably not. Writing in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Consumer Magazine, Jane E. Henney, M.D., commissioner of the FDA, points out that the new genes and the proteins they make have no apparent effect on the people eating them. The genes are DNA, present in all foods, easily digested and not associated with human illness. The new proteins that have been FDA approved are nontoxic, are rapidly digestible and do not have the characteristics of proteins known to cause allergies. If they do, they must be labeled as such. Read more…