by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 2, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Stopping the COVID-19 pandemic depends on finding a successful vaccine just as a vaccine helped to stop the scourge of polio. Until we have a safe and effective vaccine, the only way we have to slow down the pandemic is to keep infected people away from those who have...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 2, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A review of 4,103 patients found that obesity and its resultant inflammation, heart disease and diabetes are the most common conditions found in patients requiring hospitalization with COVID-19 (Physician’s Weekly, pre-print, April 14, 2020). Another study of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 27, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
We have no drugs yet proven to prevent or treat COVID-19, although some drugs appear promising, as do transfusions of blood donated by people who have recovered and are now immune. The virus is spread from one person to another; it has not been shown to be spread...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 10, 2020 | Heart Health
Athletes in sports requiring great strength who eat a very-high protein diet increase their risk for dying at a young age of heart attacks, even though protein loading does not grow larger muscles. A study by Stanley Hazen at the Cleveland Clinic has identified a...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 4, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Tight restrictions in the United States will continue. The president has announced that federal guidelines requiring most Americans to avoid non-essential travel, non-essential work, eating at bars and restaurants, and gathering in groups of more than 10, would be...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 31, 2020 | Heart Health
People who have had heart attacks are also at high risk for certain cancers because the same lifestyle factors increase risk for both and appear to be far more important than genetics in determining your likelihood to suffer both conditions. It works both ways. People...
