by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 16, 2018 | Heart Health
The evidence is overwhelming that statin drugs do help to lower cholesterol and to reduce risk for heart attacks. However, one study confirms that statins interfere with the ability to exercise and to compete in sports, even in patients who report no symptoms (J Clin...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 11, 2018 | Other Diseases & Conditions
More than one million North Americans are diagnosed each year with skin cancers. Twenty percent of people have the bacterium called Staphylococcus epidermidis living on their skin. It produces molecules that have been shown to slow or stop the development of skin...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 4, 2018 | Other Diseases & Conditions
If you get recurrent painful blisters with itching or tingling in your skin, around your mouth or in your genital area, check with your doctor who will usually do a culture of the blisters. If the culture shows that you have an infection with one of the two herpes...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 18, 2018 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Chemotherapy and radiation used to treat cancers can help to prolong lives, but these treatments can also increase heart attack risk. The American Heart Association recently recommended that patients receiving chemotherapy or radiation to treat breast cancers should...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 18, 2018 | Diabetes
Very exciting research from Princeton University explains how taking in sugared drinks and any sugar added to foods (not in whole fruits and vegetables) can cause diabetes (Cell Metabolism, Feb 6, 2018;27(2):351–361). The most common sugar source in foods contains two...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 11, 2018 | Heart Health
More people are taking fish oil pills than ever before, yet very strong data show that fish oil pills do not reduce risk for heart disease. Ten large randomized studies following 77,917 people for an average of 4.4 years showed that taking fish oil pills does not...
