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8:33 am by Dr. Leo Walker in Uncategorized
I have seborrheic Keratoses. Since I have had a total of 6 months of academic dermatology training with Drs. Sid Olansky and J. Lamar Calloway, I have felt comfortable treating them myself — the ones I can reach anyway. You ask, what is this disease with the $25 name? They are warty growths that involve oil glands. They usually start out the size of the head of a pin. (I confess to having, in the distant past, treated these with a sterilized fingernail. Recently there has been a tempest in a teapot in a medical journal about this. I now firmly agree that the doctor who treats himself has a fool for a patient — these lesions should be left to board-certified dermatologists, just in case you might accidentally mess with a malignant melanoma or other skin disease.)
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12:57 pm by Dr. Leo Walker in Uncategorized
It is widely thought that most cells in the body have a programmed number of cell divisions over a lifetime before that cell dies. In the past, it was thought that certain cells (brain, heart muscle) did not divide, our only “immortal cells” being eggs and spermatozoa (and cancer). What if ordinary body cells could be tricked into unlimited cell division? Would we have lifespans of 200 years instead of our current theoretical maximum of 120 years?
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9:30 am by Dr. Leo Walker in Uncategorized
As I have spent the last few years learning and doing integrative medicine (or, known under a number of other names, complementary, holistic, alternative and other sorts of medicine, some of which names I do not like), this past year I turned my attention back to my home base, which is internal medicine. Although I am not required to do so, I determined to take the board recertification examination and immersed myself in the usual books and journals and online stuff, preparing as usual for the ordeal.I was beginning to think that I would have to wear two pairs of glasses just to get by when it occurred to me that we have a perfectly fine school of medicine right here in Columbia.
6:22 am by Dr. Leo Walker in Uncategorized
It’s that time again when health-minded citizens begin to seek out flu shots at their local doctor’s office, health department or local employee clinics, and even pharmacies have gotten into giving them — thank heavens.
8:10 am by Dr. Leo Walker in Uncategorized
Oldies, but Goodies!
Remember Elvis? I have to ask this because most people do not remember when Elvis Presley was alive, although he certainly lives on in his spectacular music.
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I have always had an interest in Aspergillus fungi. They get in your air conditioning ducts, and you can clean the cooling machine with full strength chlorine bleach and the fungi will be back within 48 hours, if you use the air conditioner, as if you never had cleaned it in the first place. […]
It has been calculated that the average adult gains between five and ten pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Granted, a fraction of this may be water retention from all the extra salt we consume and all the extra insulin our bodies make to cope with the fruit cake and egg nog.
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Today I read in The Medical Letter, Issue 1220, dated 24 October, 2005, (requires paid subscription) that the thimerosal content in single-dose flu shots contains 1.25, or less, micrograms of mercury. The multiple-dose vials contain 15 times as much due, I would guess, to the fact that repeated needle sticks into the […]
Tammi wrote in to a recent post to say friends’ doctors had refused to write them a prescription for Tamiflu to keep on hand; she wanted to know what she should do. I agree with the doctor’s not wanting to deplete all the drug stores because of bird flu panic.
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