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Just this past week the Arizona Department of Health showed a spike in Influenza cases in the state. Prior to that, there was minimal flu in Arizona. This is late in the season for flu to begin here in Arizona, but it it unclear if we are starting a trend, or if this is just …
I had a patient, Len, who was in the office the other day and he showed me a nifty baseball hat that he used when doing gardening work outside. It had a modification in the top of the hat that included a protective cover, so that if he hit his head on a large branch, …
It’s the beginning of the year and that has a lot of us thinking about weight loss to improve our health and appearance. This is a challenge most of use deal with. Our body adjusts to our current, higher weight, and it generally tries to maintain this weight despite efforts to lose. Still, there is …
Keeping steady on your feet is critical for maintaining health, as falls lead to injuries or fractures that can result in prolonged rehabilitation. Prevention is the best approach and here are several tips to help. If you are falling too much, come see me and let’s figure out why this is happening. We can evaluate you …
I’ve dubbed the current infection that is hitting Phoenix… The Valley Virus. It is all over the place and has varying symptoms from cough, congestion, sore throat, to laryngitis and low grade fever. It is lasting 5-15 days and is not responsive to antibiotics. The symptomatic treatment list I recommend is below, and can also …
First of all…what is a weenus? This is the slang term for the excess skin at the end of your elbow. My kids taught me this word and they showed me that you can squeeze your weenus very hard without it hurting. Go ahead…try it? It’s interesting and true. Compare your weenus sensitivity to …
Entresto is a new medication for the treatment of Heart Failure from Novartis. It is proven to reduce symptoms, hospitalizations and to prolong life in patients with symptomatic heart failure with a reduced heart pump capacity (below 40% ejection fraction.) Congestive Heart Failure is among the most costly diseases in the US due to the …
Flu season in 2016 was the worst we’ve ever seen in Arizona in sofar as the amount of cases noted in the state. If most years the graph looks like the Rocky Mountains, last year was Mount Everest! It’s easy to track the flu season in Arizona, and sort of fun. The state government does …
…..on heaven and earth Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”….William Shakespeare It’s true……despite a scientists desire to ‘know it all’ we always find ourselves wanting. The latest unimagined issue was just reported in the WASHINGTON POST. A rare infection is occurring in 1 in 1000 patients who had heart bypass surgery since …
Over the past 40 years our office has accumulated a list of specialists physicians and other health professionals, who have experience and expertise in helping solve vexing health problems. This website provides that list of specialists to the Scottsdale/Paradise Valley Community and it is a privilege and honor to be able to help our …
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A patient just showed me a new therapy that allows you to have a colonoscopy without having to do the bothersome preparation with the colon cleansing medications. It’s called HyGieaCare, and it’s a rapid enema treatment that clears the colon to allow for colonoscopy. A group in Phoenix is using this method, and for those of …
Tom Hopkins is a beloved retired school-teacher from Saguaro High, and he is a thriving senior . Tom and his wife are engaged and involved on multiple levels. Not only did they take a stimulating trip to Morocco this past summer, but he then Tom wrote about it and got the Arizona Republic to take …
Recently, a patient turned me on to Sudocrem. This is a topical cream for skin irritations in the backside, groin, and skin fold areas where irritations and infections develop. There are a variety of topicals to use for these issues and I’ve mentioned other amazing products including Interdry, a silver ion impregnated cloth sheet that …
Chico Marx supposedly is the first one to say the above quote in the movie Duck Soup, but I’ve often heard it attributed to various politicians as well, when they’ve been caught doing something unsavory. Either way, the quote gets at an important concept…. how we ‘know’ something is true, and it’s a critically important …
Although there are no cases of Zika virus transmitted in Arizona, the recent reports of cases in Florida, and the knowledge that mosquitoes that can transmit Zika live in Arizona, means that we will likely see some transmission of Zika in Arizona at some point in the future. That said, there is no reason for …