Dr. Hister's Blog
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New Arguments about Screening for Breast Cancer<p> The US Task Force on Protective Services has just come out with new recommendations (published in The Annals of Internal Medicine ) about breast cancer screening, and those guidelines have raised a huge storm of protest down south. According to these new proposed guidelines (which many, much more politiciz</p>Apr 23, 2011
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Taking ASA Daily: Should You or Shouldn’t You?<p> With the constant media focus on H1N1, an unintended consequence is that lots of other important heath news has been over-looked, information that will actually impact way more people in a much more significant fashion than H1N1 will. Tae for example, a recent study about ASA in the journal, Drugs and Th</p>Apr 23, 2011
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Even More on H1N1<p> Interesting H1N1 study from California, where they’ve had a pretty severe time of it – both now and when the H1N1 pandemic first hit last spring and summer. And in this analysis of just under 1100 patients admitted to hospital with H1N1 infections – that is, the most severel</p>Apr 23, 2011
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H1N1 News for Pregnant Women<p> If you’re pregnant, and you’re unsure, as nearly all pregnant women about what to do about the H1N1 vaccine, if you can even get the vaccine, of course, you might be interested to k now that an article published online in the journal, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, concluded </p>Apr 23, 2011
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Good News (for some) about H1N1<p> Amidst all the gloom about not having enough H1N1 vaccine to satisfy all those who want to get it, here is a bit of heartening news: a small study from the US has shown that people who take statin drugs (those drugs to lower LDL levels, such as – sorry, trade names here because those are the most familiar</p>Apr 23, 2011
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The Kids Are Not All Right<p> With everyone spending every spare sou of their medical attention allotment on H1N1, so many other (way more?) important stories are getting buried without people paying them the slightest heed. One of the scarier reports this week came out of the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress in which a pretty detailed anal</p>Apr 23, 2011
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I got my h1n1 shot<p> I got my H1N1 shot (and my seasonal flu shot) on Monday on the first day of its release. I am asthmatic, and lately my asthma has been acting up, resulting in the need for more meds, so I guess I'm in the higher-risk category, although I am also over 60, so that's supposed to lower my risk somewhat, although no</p>Apr 23, 2011
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More on H1N1After the announcement today that both flu shots – the seasonal flu shot and the one for H1N1 – would be available as of next week to British Columbians, I had a chat with one of the authors of that study that linked seasonal flu shots in Canada to a higher risk of coming down with...Apr 23, 2011
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A highly-publicized AIDS vaccine trial has now shown only “modest” responseThe results from a very-hyped AIDS vaccine trial, the largest one yet done, wre released early a few weeks ago because, according to the researchers highly-publicized data, the vaccine showed a "31 %" success rate after 3 years, which would make this the first AIDS vaccine trial to show any positive result. The researchers said...Apr 23, 2011
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Get your shingles vaccineA vaccine against shingles has just been released in Canada, and it's recommended for everyone over the age of 60, because ask anyone who's had it, you really don't want to get shingles (the vaccine is not perfvect, but once you get vaccinated, even if you do get shingles, it tends to be much milder...Apr 23, 2011
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