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 11, 2018 | Nutrition
I have reported on studies showing that calcium pills do not help to prevent bone fractures. Another well-planned study shows that taking calcium pills, both with and without vitamin D, is associated with increased risk for pre-malignant serrated colon polyps (Gut,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 4, 2018 | Nutrition
Overweight people who eat mostly whole foods rather than processed foods can lose weight without counting calories or restricting portion sizes. • A study from Stanford showed that restricting processed foods, particularly those with added sugars and other refined...
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 | Mar 4, 2018 | Deaths of Famous People
Billy Graham came from relative poverty, milking cows and plowing fields on a family dairy farm near Charlotte, NC, to become a Southern Baptist minister and the best-known North American evangelist of the 20th century. He hosted his huge crusades from 1947 until his...
