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Should You Avoid Alcohol If You’re Taking Antibiotics? It depends on the number of drinks consumed, the type of medication, and your overall health status among other factors.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 23, 2024 Source:Should You Avoid Alcohol If You’re Taking Antibiotics?
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House Calls, #952, December 22, 2024: The words and phrases you should not use when communicating with patients.
These phrases and words are likely to cast your physician into the doghouse when used either through sheer ignorance of language or having spent too much time in tgheir own health silo. Your Calls and Comments:
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Bird flu a concern in California
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 20, 2024 Source:How do people catch bird flu?
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‘Very low risk’ of hepatitis A spread to customers at Hunt Club Tim Hortons
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 19, 2024 Source:‘Very low risk’ of hepatitis A spread to customers at Hunt Club Tim Hortons
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Same old top-down advice from academics and bureaucrats trying to solve the family doctor shortage. Perhaps it would he advisable to ask physicians who actively manage their practices/businesses what it would take to improve the working environment to attract family doctors to join?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 18, 2024 Source:Number of family doctors in Canada now growing at a slower pace: report Reference: While family physician growth has slowed, pan-Canadian data indicates primary health care workforce is expanding
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“Holiday Heart Syndrome” is no different from “weekend” or “celebratory” heart when the culprit is alcohol.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 17, 2024 Source:What is ‘holiday heart’ and how can you avoid it this Christmas season?
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New tool to test for early bone marrow changes know as smouldering multiple myeloma has been developed.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 16, 2024 Source:‘Smoldering myeloma’: Breakthrough research could buy time for those at risk of dangerous cancer
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House Calls, #951, December 15, 2024: Eli Lilly Levies Fat Tax on Weight Loss Drug
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff joins me today to discuss the decision by Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Mounjaro, to charge more for patients who are suffering with the affects of obesity. In fact the cost will be double that of people using it for the treatment of their type 2 diabetes. Your Calls and Comments: