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How outrage over new cancer screening recommendations might positively impact health care reform by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Opponents of health care reform have used the new recommendations for breast and cervical cancer screening as a weapon to derail health care reform. The argument is that a &q ... Read on »

Generic and Therapeutic Substitutions by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I was on the local DC news today regarding generic substitution. Generic substitution is when your doctor writes for a prescription medication, but the pharmacists substitutes ... Read on »

Stop Using Vytorin!!!! by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine At the American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, FL they just released the results of the ARBITER 6 HALTS study. No Vytorin was used in the study, but I am sure that all ... Read on »

The Pap Smear: A Symbol for Our Health Care System's Problems by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Today the Wall Street Journal and other sources reported on a study from The Annals of Internal Medicine that showed that most US doctors don't know the guidelines of how ofte ... Read on »

Parents: Please Keep Your Children in Booster Seats. by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Yesterday, my 8 year old daughter was very upset about our demands that she stay in a booster seat when riding in a car. Her main concern was that most of her friends parents ... Read on »

Sick About Singulair by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The New York Times' business section recently reported that despite a second-quarter earnings fall, hurt by lower sales of its cholesterol drugs (specifically Vytorin, see my ... Read on »

Finally! FDA Questions Safety, Quality of Electronic Cigarettes by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine As reported first in the WSJ Health Blog, the FDA is finally looking into electronic cigarettes, and they don't like what they see. Here is the FDA press release and here is t ... Read on »

Lantus Causes Cancer! Why Doesn't Anyone Seem Care? by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The answer is probably money, but more on that later. I recently posted on the Lantus/cancer connection in my post A New Problem With Insulin: Cancer. The concern was trigger ... Read on »

A New Problem With Insulin: Cancer. by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Followers of this blog will note that my approach to the management of Type 2 diabetes is different then currently recommended guidelines. Unlike current recommendations whi ... Read on »

Comparative Effectiveness Can Be a Win for the Drug Companies by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine One of the Obama administration's major initiatives as part of health care reform is comparative effectiveness. Currently, the drug and device companies do almost all of the r ... Read on »

For the RECORD, Avandia does not cause heart attacks. by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Those people who know me would probably agree that I am not one to say "I told you so," but in this case I will make and exception. The RECORD study, as I described ... Read on »

More on Electronic Cigarettes or E-cigs by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I continue to receive multiple comments on my original post Electronic Cigarettes and appreciate them all. There is an avid group of e-cig users that does not appreciate my o ... Read on »

Diabetes Conspiracy by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I bought my Honda Civic Hybrid after watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and Who Killed the Electric Car, the latter of which tells how despite a overwhelming acceptance ... Read on »

Prescription Drugs: Risk vs. Benefit vs Cost- The Chantix Example by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When a physician prescribes a medication, a patient generally wants the most effective medication, with the least amount of side effects, that won't cost a lot of money. Unfo ... Read on »

4 Things the FDA Should Go After Besides Cheerios by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the FDA has decided to go after the maker s of Cheerios. You can read their warning letter to General Mills here. The issue the FDA ha ... Read on »

Viva Viagra? Not Until the Kids Are Asleep! by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine CNN is reporting today that Democratic Congressman Jim Moran has proposed legislation that would ban erectile dysfunction (ED) television commercials from appearing on radio a ... Read on »

Please Don't Ask Me for Tamiflu by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine On the one hand, our 24/7 news cycle which includes the Internet.etc has made people more aware of the threat of Swine Flu. One advantage of having the latest, up to date inf ... Read on »

Asthmatics Need to Understand Control by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine The preliminary results of a study I had a role in were recently released to the public (the final results will soon be presented and published). I am pleased to see that thi ... Read on »

The Problem with Insulin- Part 2 by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine In my previous post- The Problem With Insulin - I mention concerns about a recently published consensus statement from the ADA (essentially the new ADA 2009 guidelines) which ... Read on »

An aspirin a day does keep the doctor away. by Dr. Matthew M. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Though not picked up that much by the print media, you have probably seen on the news or the web new recommendations for taking daily aspirin to prevent heart attacks and stro ... Read on »

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