Medical Advice

Do You Need The Pneumonia Vaccine?

Posted 02.19.2012

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Punxsutawney Phil's prediction at the beginning of the month promised six more weeks of winter, a time you're most likely to be suffering with the sni...

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My Doctor Says I'm Not Dead But I Want a Second Opinion

Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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When I was growing up, my family relied upon a stable of health care professionals whose idiosyncrasies remain seared into my memory.

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Holiday Safety Tips: Five Signs Of Holiday-Related Stupidity

Tom Johansmeyer | Posted 11.17.2011

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In a matter of days, Thanksgiving will be behind us, and people will stop saying it's too soon to put out the Christmas decorations. So, if you didn't...

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Prostate Cancer: What to Do When You Learn you Have It

Tom Halsted | Posted 11.17.2011

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A recent AMA study showed that prostate cancer patients often opt for inappropriate or unnecessary treatment by practitioners touting their own specialties while disparaging or dismissing others. My own experience was typical.

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Overtreated: More Medical Care Isn't Always Better

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON — More medical care won't necessarily make you healthier – it may make you sicker. It's an idea that technology-loving American...

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Diabetic Neuropathy: Preventing and Reversing the Damage

Dr. Robert A. Kornfeld | Posted 11.17.2011

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Our culture has developed this fantasy that people can eat anything they want, do no exercise, and any health complications will be resolved with a few pills or injections. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Ozzy Osbourne Named Health Advice Columnist For The London Times

London Times | Posted 11.17.2011

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As you can imagine, when The Sunday Times Magazine asked me to be its new health-advice columnist -- Dr Ozzy, as I'll be known from now on -- I though...

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Mixing Medications and Vitamins: When It Hurts, When It Helps

Leo Galland, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Several studies have found that the attitude toward vitamins and other nutritional supplements is Don't ask, don't tell. How do you know when interactions among drugs and supplements will be beneficial?

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When Your Health's at Risk, Investigate

Helene Pavlov, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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The physician-patient relationship is key to your good health -- for prevention, treatment and recovery. Learn how to research effectively, and consider all of your options.

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Should Men Get Routine Prostate Screenings?

AP | STEPHANIE NANO | Posted 11.17.2011

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The American Cancer Society revised its guidelines for prostate cancer screening on Wednesday. The advocacy group is one of many organizations that ma...

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We Can All Fight Cancer Better

David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Slipping into a brain scanner one evening in place of a subject who hadn't shown up, I was suddenly stripped of my white-coat status and thrown into the world of patients: I had brain cancer.

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A Second Opinion About Second Opinions

Ellen Langer | Posted 11.17.2011

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The medical world encourages us to get a second opinion before embarking on expensive procedures. While getting a second opinion may seem straightforward, the process is not so simple.

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