by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 27, 2015 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Pinch the skin over your belly. If your fingers are three or more inches apart, you are at increased risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes, and certain cancers (J Am Coll Cardiol, 2013;62(10):921-925). Harvard University researchers show that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 21, 2015 | Deaths of Famous People
In the past month, two former National Basketball Association giant centers died of heart attacks: Daryl Dawkins on August 27 at age 58 and Moses Malone on September 13 at age 60 . Both were 6′ 10″ tall, weighed more than 250 pounds, and went directly from...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 16, 2015 | Fitness
When I wrote my best-selling Sportsmedicine Book in 1978, I coined the term RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) for the treatment of athletic injuries (Little Brown and Co., page 94). Ice has been a standard treatment for injuries and sore muscles because it...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 13, 2015 | Women's Health
Each year more than 60,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with a type of early breast cancer called Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), which represents 25 percent of all breast cancer cases. Almost all DCIS patients are treated with surgery to remove the lump,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 7, 2015 | Heart Health
Statins are widely used to help prevent heart attacks, but a new study shows that the same process that causes this class of drugs to reduce heart attack risk can also increase memory loss, muscle problems, joint pains and diabetes (American Journal of Physiology...
