With around 36,000 Americans dying from flu every year it makes sense to get your flu shot, especially if you are over 65. Seniors are much more vulnerable than the rest of the adult population and Medicare normally covers the...

An unusual event in July 2009 raised the public's conscious on the topic of oral cancer. A dentist, Dr. Robert Trager, has been organizing oral cancer screenings at various venues. This time, Trager's team offered...

Background Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is characterized by abnormal bowel muscle motility. Some people may have predominately loose stools and diarrhea with more than three bowel movements per day, while others may have more a...

Coffee may not be as bad for you as you think! Of course too much of anything isn't good, and certainly if you drink coffee late at night it can keep you awake, but...

Gynecologic Disease Other Diseases in Women Breast cancer Coronary Heart Disease Ovarian cancer Alzheimer's Disease Uterine (endometrial) cancer Uterine cervical cancer Vulvar cancer Sexually transmitted diseases   about risk assessment Breast Cancer   Frederick R. Jelovsek, MD Lung cancer kills...

Life Feels So Hard Perhaps the most common complaints of today's busy women are the feelings of fatigue, insomnia, weight gain and depression. Certainly these symptoms are connected to menopause, but many of the women...

Frederick R. Jelovsek MD "How does taking calcium supplements affect the calcium channel blocker I take for high blood pressure? I am a 48 yr old Native American woman. I really want to stop taking blood...

Background - importance and magnitude of problem Diagnostic goals - for overall category adrenal disease 21-hydroxylase deficiency 11á-hydroxylase deficiency 3á-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency exogenous androgen/progestin ingestion maternal androgen secreting tumors true hermaphroditism sex chromosome abnormalities dysembryogenesis- ambiguity with...