by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 25, 2016 | Men's Health
More than 180,000 North American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, and more than 26,000 of those men will eventually die from the disease. Prostate cancer, unlike most other cancers, tends to grow very slowly and does not kill the majority of men...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 25, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Just about everyone has heard her sing "I am Sixteen, Going on Seventeen" as Liesl, the eldest daughter of Captain Georg von Trapp in the film The Sound of Music. The song is about the first love of a 16 year old girl. In real life, she was a college...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 18, 2016 | Nutrition
My faith in several of my Harvard mentors during the 1950s and 1960s has been shattered by an article that appeared this week in JAMA Internal Medicine (September 12, 2016). Cristin E. Kearns, a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, discovered letters in the archives at...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 11, 2016 | Other Diseases & Conditions
On September 2, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it will ban triclosan and 18 other antibacterial chemicals in soaps and liquid hand or body wash products because they are ineffective and potentially harmful. The banned chemicals are...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 11, 2016 | Nutrition
This month two strong studies show that 1) giving people with heart disease a diet that is high in fruits and vegetables and low in red meat is more effective than taking statin drugs in preventing heart attack deaths, and 2) eating red meat regularly increases risk...
