by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 21, 2016 | Heart Health
If you have pain in your chest, jaw, arm, or neck when you exercise, you could have angina, which is pain caused by reduced blood flow through narrowed arteries leading to your heart. You should check with a doctor as soon as possible. Symptoms of angina can also...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 14, 2016 | Men's Health
Heart attacks are the main cause of death in men diagnosed with prostate cancer (Circulation, Feb 4, 2016). More than 230,000 American men are newly diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. Because prostate cancer usually progresses so slowly, the more than three...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 7, 2016 | Women's Health
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and its incidence has increased by more than 20 percent worldwide since 2008. A study from Spain shows that women on a high-vegetable Mediterranean-type diet had close to one third the rate of breast cancer when...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 1, 2016 | Other Diseases & Conditions
An ankle sprain is a common walking and sporting injury. It occurs when the ankle twists, causing damage to the soft tissues and ligaments. A ligament consists of several strands of tissue, all compacted together to form a strong structure, similar to a rope, which...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 31, 2016 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A study from Columbia Medical School shows that a high fiber diet that is low in sugar and saturated fat can help you to fall sleep faster and sleep deeper at night (J Clin Sleep Med, Jan 2016;12(1):19–24). A single day of increased sugar and fat and decreased fiber...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 31, 2016 | Heart Health
Thirty percent of all deaths in the world are due to heart disease. The authors of a study covering 3.8 billion people in 186 countries believe that there would be a great reduction in heart attack deaths if people increased their intake of the healthful vegetable...
