DocTalk May 13

Dr Shereen Habib, Well Woman Clinic

http://www.wellwomanclinic.ae/

Dr Sean Petherbridge Keith Nicholl Medical Centre

http://www.keithnicholl.com/

In the office?

vasomotor rhinitis, sinusitis.

lower back pain

siatica

ovarian cysts

1. thoughts on lack of sleep and depression.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/lack-of-sleep-can-lead-to-depression-in-teens/article18593306/

Researchers at the University of Texas Health Center in Houston tracked the sleep habits of more than 4,000 teens for over a year and found that youth who don’t get enough sleep are four times more likely to develop depression compared to peers who sleep more. In a separate report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that 70 per cent of American high-school students fall well short of its recommended nine to 10 hours of sleep a night.

2. wifi and health?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-much-wifi/article18592972/

Though most parents and educators celebrate the move, some are raising concerns about the possible health impacts of the radio-frequency (RF) radiation on which wireless technologies operate. Exposure levels to this kind of radiation, which fall in the same frequency bandwidth on the electro-magnetic spectrum as radios, televisions and mobile phones, continue to rise as wireless technologies become more prevalent.

Canada’s current guidelines on RF exposure are in line with those of the International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection – the largest regulatory body in this field. But many other jurisdictions have adopted considerably lower limits, either as a precautionary measure or because they view the science differently.

DocTalk May 6

And yes the Doctors joined me live to talk about you and your health.

Dr Shereen Habib, Well Woman Clinic

http://www.wellwomanclinic.ae/

Dr Sean Petherbridge Keith Nicholl Medical Centre

http://www.keithnicholl.com/

Here is the list of things we set out to talk about and as always we got well off track because of the questions that came into the studio.

In the office?

Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease.

ovarian cysts

still bronchitis

1. polio Pakistan

2. any way to guard against food poisoning while traveling

3. The company Coca Cola  said that would stop using brominated vegetable oil, which contains bromine, an element found in flame retardants, in Fresco and some varieties of Fanta and fountain drinks.

4.statins and women

Should so many women be taking statins?

Medical guidelines issued late last year may double the number of Americans who are told to take these cholesterol-lowering drugs. But the recommendations don’t distinguish patients by gender, and a small, increasingly vocal group of cardiologists believe that’s a mistake.

Far too many healthy women are taking statins, they say, though some research indicates the drugs will do them little good and may be more likely to cause serious side effects in women.

5. e cigarettes

Electronic cigarettes appear to be safer than ordinary cigarettes for one simple — and simply obvious — reason: people don’t light up and smoke them.

With the e-cigarettes, there is no burning tobacco to produce myriad new chemicals, including some 60 carcinogens.

But new research suggests that, even without a match, some popular e-cigarettes get so hot that they, too, can produce a handful of the carcinogens found in cigarettes and at similar levels.

A study to be published this month in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research found that the high-power e-cigarettes known as tank systems produce formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, along with the nicotine-laced vapor that their users inhale. The toxin is formed when liquid nicotine and other e-cigarette ingredients are subjected to high temperatures, according to the study. A second study that is being prepared for submission to the same journal points to similar findings.

6 . finish your medication

I strongly suspect that millions of pills are being hoarded in Canada's medicine cabinets. The Commentary cites two telling examples. Doctors prescribe antibiotics quite commonly. A study of antibiotic prescriptions found that more than a third of patients who get a prescription for antibiotics do not finish the entire prescription. That means there leftovers.  A study that tracked painkillers that were dispensed to patients found that nearly sixty percent of the pills went unused - producing even more leftovers. At the first National Prescription Drug Drop-Off Day held a year ago, more than two tonnes of unused medications were returned - probably a tiny percentage of the actual amount of prescriptions that need to be disposed of.

8. cool

-resveratrol, raspberry ketones for weight loss

http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/web/2014/05/Mixing-Peanuts-Cranberry-Juice-Block.html

DocTalk April 15

The doctors are int he house.

Dr Shereen Habib, Well Woman Clinic

http://www.wellwomanclinic.ae/

Dr Sean Petherbridge Keith Nicholl Medical Centre

http://www.keithnicholl.com/

Here are the show notes.

Also in the news...Tamiflu not effective!!

Oxytocin helps anorexics!!

Nothing too gross except bottom chafing at the DC!

Sports injuries, knees

Gastroenteritis

Round up of extreme sport injuries to keep an eye out for and how to treat.

-dehydration

-chaffing

-burns

1. good gut good health

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health-advisor/get-your-microbes-to-help-fight-chronic-disease/article17722260/

2. Knuckle cracking more kids doing it is it an issue?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/ask-a-health-expert/will-i-get-arthritis-from-cracking-my-knuckles/article17747372/

3. environment and healing this is interesting.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/the-hospital/better-by-design-how-a-hospital-room-can-help-patients-heal/article16748288/

4. Antibiotics and our food do we need to be concerned?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health-advisor/antibiotics-belong-in-medicine-not-meat/article17858518/

5. pimples how do we treat them?

6. skin bleach do we need to be concerned

7. mosquito bite myth remedies? A hot spoon can finish off the proteins

8. gentle or immediate plaster removal

9. are plaster casts a thing of the past?

10 ebola Here's some background information about Ebola, a virus with a high fatality rate that was first identified in Africa in the 1976.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/11/health/ebola-fast-facts/index.html

11. telling people bad news is it hard?

12 . Washington state health officials have issued a warning to anyone who may have been in the vicinity of a particular woman at the end of March: You may have been exposed to measles, a highly contagious and potentially fatal respiratory disease.

13

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http://www.fitshop.ca/platinum-deco-chocolate-multivitamin-28-squares.html

DocTalk April 1

The Doctors join me to talk about your health!

Dr Shereen Habib, Well Woman Clinic

http://www.wellwomanclinic.ae/

Dr Sean Petherbridge Keith Nicholl Medical Centre

http://www.keithnicholl.com/

This week we were all over the medical map!

-not unwell but wondering about the cough, impetigo

-perforated gastric ulcer

-blood in stool

1. break a blister or not?

2. Pop a pimple or not?

3. pull the teva toenail or leave it?

4. cover a burn in butter?

5. diarrhea and the burn from the wipe stage

6. ingrown chest hair or back hair

7. nail fungus

8. morning breath all day

9 belly button infection

10 abscess drainage

DocTalk February 26

The doctors are back and they are taking your questions once again!

Great education radio this is.

Listen to the bit about a runny ear with the colour of melted butter.

Dr Shereen Habib, Well Woman Clinic

http://www.wellwomanclinic.ae/

Dr Sean Petherbridge Keith Nicholl Medical Centre

http://www.keithnicholl.com/

DocTalk Feb 4

Here is the DocTalk show from Nightline.

And some of the notes!

Dr Shereen Habib, Well Woman Clinic

http://www.wellwomanclinic.ae/

Dr Sean Petherbridge Keith Nicholl Medical Centre

http://www.keithnicholl.com/

In the office?

-non productive cough cold to secondary infection micoplasma

-eczema

-peanut allergy

FROM THE TIMES

1. birth control pills and blood clots

2. good night sleep could help fight prostate cancer

General

1. uncontrollable muscle twitching?

2. dementia what is it

3. thumb sucking, infants and teeth issues

4. when to toilet train, infants.

5. what is multiple sclerosis

6. do we need to have regular checkups there is a lot of propaganda that seem to say we do!

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February 04, 2014 Thoughts of Fast Food Hinder Your Ability to Derive Happiness from Small Pleasures Research participants who had seen a picture of a fast-food burger and fries subsequently rated themselves less happy upon viewing 10 photographs of natural scenic beauty (4.86, on average, versus 5.45 on a seven-point scale), say Julian House and two colleagues from the University of Toronto. Exposure to the idea of “fast food” makes people more impatient and impairs their ability to derive happiness from pleasurable stimuli; this effect could have a long-term negative effect on people’s experienced happiness, the researchers say. SOURCE: Too Impatient to Smell the Roses: Exposure to Fast Food Impedes Happiness

Jan 28 DocTalk

Well Dr. Shereen and Dr. Sean join me to talk medicine and your health.

Dr Shereen Habib, Well Woman Clinic

http://www.wellwomanclinic.ae/

Dr Sean Petherbridge Keith Nicholl Medical Centre

http://www.keithnicholl.com/

The Show.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10582598/Depressed-patients-turn-to-the-internet-for-Skypotherapy.html

If you need NHS help for common problems such as anxiety or mild depression, you won’t necessarily meet your therapist face-to-face. You could be at home or even by the pool, typing your emotional secrets into a dedicated instant messaging service. You might be following a computer program that takes you step by step through a CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) programme, or having a digital face-to-face on Skype.

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/217785/mission-pharmacal-creates-mobile-app-for-docs.html?edition=69122

A popular medical management tool is now available on iPads and iPhones, thanks to Mission Pharmacal Company.

The San Antonio-based pharma company sponsored the development of an app that helps doctors in treating kidney stones.

For more than a decade, physicians have turned to the highly regarded "ABCs of Medical Management of Stones" booklet for a simple, step-by-step approach to the diagnosis and treatment of nephrolithiasis (kidney stones). Now the education tool is available as an easy-to-access, easy-to-use mobile application for Apple devices.

http://www.fdlreporter.com/viewart/20140122/FON04/301220145/Toddlers-tablets-Doctors-parents-question-technology-kids

Tablet computers are so easy to use that even a 3-year-old can master them.

And that has some pediatricians and other health experts worried.

Since navigating a tablet generally doesn’t require the ability to type or read, children as young as toddlers can quickly learn how to stream movies, scroll through family photos or play simple games.

That ease-of-use makes tablets —and smartphones— popular with busy parents who use them to pacify their kids during car rides, restaurant outings or while they’re at home trying to get dinner on the table. And many feel a little less guilty about it if they think there’s educational value to the apps and games their children use.

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