Dr. Barry Dworkin

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 16, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Throat pain, renal dialysis after kidney failure, costochondritis, what is dextromethorphan?, vision problems, the 65-year-old check-up, and acetaminophen use in someone with hepatitis C [display_podcast]      

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 9, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Comments on Montreal Canadiens’ forward Max Pacioretty’s severe concussion and fractured vertebrae, can you receive the shingles vaccine when taking methotrexate?, new onset of headaches in a young…

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 2, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: HPV vaccine, smoking cessation strategies, the relationship between shingles and chicken pox and the purpose of Varivax, the Chicken Pox vaccine, fungal infection of the nail, how to reduce…

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 16, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Salty taste in mouth, cerebral spinal fluid levels, numbness in the toes, Pick’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome and thyroid disease and weight issues. [display_podcast]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call, February 9, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation Topics include thyroid function tests, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, kidney stones, TIAs, ankle itch, and scrotal swelling [display_podcast]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call, January 26, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Topics include colonoscopy, coccydynia, hand tremors, Beaver fever, abdominal pain after gallbladder removal, amlodipine for high blood pressure, elevated platelets and opiate withdrawal. [display_podcast]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call, January 19, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation Topics include meniscal tears of the knee, optic neuritis in a 9 year-old, animal to human disease transmission, mammogram during pregnancy to assess a lump, abdominal aortic aneurysm and high…

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call, January 12, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation Topics include new treatment for osteoporosis, Rebif and Copaxone for the treatment of MS, scelerotherapy for varicose veins, possible eustacian tube blockage causing hearing difficulties, testosterone replacement therapy, dizziness, treatment…