Don’t let falling leaves take you out this autumn
The autumn leaves produce a scene of changing colors that is beautiful to behold. When they have fallen to the ground and jumping in the piles is done, they need to be raked up....
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Farm living is the life for me – to avoid asthma?
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine recently demonstrates tendencies to develop allergies and asthma may be diminished by early exposure to pooled bacterial dust samples found on family farms combined...
More evidence for adding exercise inquiries when talking with patients
The September 15, 2016 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published an article online about a survey showing that 1 in 4 people in the US 50 years and older engage in no exercise other...
Gluten-free diet triples in Americans
According to a report published online September 6th in JAMA Internal Medicine and covered in PracticeUpdate, between 2009 and 2014, the number of gluten-free Americans has tripled but the number of individuals with celiac disease...
“Stop running, it’ll ruin your knees…”
For as long as we’ve been told, "don’t cross your eyes or they’ll stay that way", we have also been told running is bad for our knees. It turns out this is not true...
Is surgery the only option?
In the August 3, 2016 “The Upshot” column in The New York Times, author Gina Kolata reports on the rationale behind common surgeries, from meniscus to spinal fusion to vertebroplasty. When compared to drug...
Mechanical low back pain facts and differential diagnosis
Did you know two thirds of all Americans experience low back pain at some point in their lives? Or that low back pain is the second most common complaint in ambulatory care? Or is...
Safe travels
The U.S. has succeeded at significantly reducing the number of deaths due to car crashes from 2000-2013, however our level of improvement is significantly lower than that of 19 other high-income countries. In a...
Sleep disturbances and stroke link
Sleep apnea and/or poor sleep habits may increase stroke risk according to a recent large literature reviews. Meta-analysis of 29 studies and 2,343 patients with an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke or transient ischemic attack...