Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Diabetes, Diet and Nutrition, Health Tips
By Jeffrey M. Levine MD, and Michael Cioroiu, MD
Nutrition is an important component of a plan for wound healing. At the Beth Israel Center for Advanced Wound Care, we see all types of wounds, including pressure ulcers, arterial and venous wounds, non-healing surgical wounds and others. Although we have many surgical options and topical treatments, wounds will not heal if the patient is not well nourished. Incorporating a nutritional plan helps achieve the goal of wound healing in the shortest time possible, with minimal pain, discomfort and scarring.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Exercise, Health Tips, Sports Medicine
You’ve faithfully trained five days a week for two years to successfully complete the New York City Marathon. You feel great and can run 20 miles with relative ease. Then your date asks you to join her at yoga class, during which you find you can’t come close to touching your toes. The next day your calf muscles are painful and you can’t run.
Or, perhaps you love going to the gym to lift free-weights and use the machines. You look and feel great; your muscles are well developed and cut. But when you decide to join in on your niece’s basketball game, you find yourself too out of breath to keep up, and after 10 minutes of play you drag yourself panting to the sidelines to rest. The next day you are too tired to go the gym. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Diabetes, Health Tips, Heart Disease, Primary Care, Vascular Health
Recent media reports have caused some alarm and confusion about newly published guidelines for statin drugs. Statin drugs reduce cholesterol levels and also decrease cardiac and vascular disease, independent of their cholesterol-lowering effect. Statins provide multiple benefits, but the mechanisms of their actions are not yet fully understood. Like any medication, there is a risk of side effects, which can occur in up to 18 percent of patients and most often consist of muscle pain or temporary derangement of liver function. Rare serious side effects have been described. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Health Tips, Speech Pathology
While we may be well aware of the meanings and pronunciations of the words we choose, and our tone of voice and volume when we speak, there are additional guidelines for social language, also known as “pragmatics.” Successful social language is appropriate, informative and persuasive, while poor pragmatics can lead to social isolation and lack of acceptance. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Diet and Nutrition, Health Tips
Truth or Myth: Vegetarians are always healthier than their meat-eating counterparts?
Research suggests that people who follow an appropriately planned vegetarian diet often are slimmer, have lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure. Vegetarian diets also have long been associated with decreased risk for such chronic diseases as obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. The magic word in all this is “appropriate.” (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cancer, Health Tips, Sexual Health, Women's Health
Cervical cancer screening is probably the most successful cancer-screening program ever developed. One hundred years ago, cancer of the cervix was the leading cause of cancer for women in this country. Now it is not even in the top 10. This is largely because of the Pap smear, which was introduced in the 1950s.
Cervical cancer lends itself to a screening test, as the cervix can be directly visualized with simple equipment and its cells can be directly sampled with a relatively painless and risk-free procedure. In addition, cervical cancer is caused by the human Papilloma virus (HPV), which causes changes in the cervical cells that can be detected almost a decade before the onset of cancer. (more…)
By Jeffrey M. Levine MD, and Michael Cioroiu, MD
