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Drug Deaths

Do you know what class of drugs causes the most drug related deaths every year?  Does your mind go to street drugs like heroin, or possibly super stimulants like crack, crank, and cocaine?  Some of you know I tend to be tricky, so you are probably considering toxic meds like cancer drugs or heart medications.  […]

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Diabesity

Diabesity – what’s that?  Diabesity is the newly coined term for obesity + diabetes, and refers to the link between obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.  Since this is about the link underneath these conditions, you don’t even have to be obese to have diabesity.  Does this matter to you?  Half of […]

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Referred Pain

As I am sitting here on this toasty day, I am experiencing a stabbing pain in my lower mid-back that radiates around to the ribs on my right side.  This pain has been my companion for the last three days.  Like most pains it seems much stronger at night as there is nothing to distract […]