More Medical News – Calcium and Cardiovascular health

I am not trying to bombard you with email blasts, but an article in the Science Section of last week’s New York Times mandates sending this out. The article was entitled, “Popular but not very effective.” The subtitle was, “Cardiovascular supplements and diets do little for hearts.” It was a relatively extensive article about a number of popular supplements and different diets based on research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which reviewed data from hundreds of clinical...

Important Medical Update from Dr. Steven R. Goldstein MD

As most of you are aware, I usually send these email blasts in response to medical articles that appear in the news, and most often, The New York Times. This is an example where, almost four months ago, I alerted my patients to a rising problem of antibiotic resistance, mainly with urinary tract infection because physicians were failing to do appropriate cultures prior to initiating broad spectrum antibiotic use.  In the July 14th New York Times, a front-page article was entitled, “As a ...