Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Parkinson Disease (PD) is a disorder of muscle coordination, not muscle weakness. It accounts for approximately 80% of movement disorders and it is the second most common neurodegenerative brain disease trailing only Alzheimer’s. This condition happens when nerve cells (neurons) in part of the brain called the substantia nigra die and don’t produce enough dopamine. The lack of dopamine
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Type 2 Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects 37 million Americans. Nine out of ten times diabetes it’s caused by T2D. Approximately eight per cent of the time it is due to type 1 diabetes. If you get diabetes, you have too much sugar (glucose) in the blood. The hormone insulin works to keep your blood glucose levels within a normal range,
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory board Deaths in the United States due to diabetes have exceeded 100,000 for the years 2020, and 2021. The CDC reports, “37.3 million” Americans of all ages have diabetes. “And the percentage of adults with diabetes increased with age, reaching 29.2% among those aged 65 years or older.” The body breaks down sugars from our diet into
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an adult onset, progressive, nerve wasting, movement disorder of the brain causing a depletion of the hormone dopamine. PD attacks a part of the brain called the substantia nigra, which produces dopamine. This chemical messenger in the brain, dopamine, plays a key role in muscle tone and movement. Treatment is primarily focused on replenishing the brain with
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Nick, a 20 year veteran of the Cleveland Fire Department said: “My family has a history of colon cancer. When I was 50 years old, I started to get routine colonoscopies. I told the nurses in my doctor’s office that I’m a healthy guy and don’t take any medicines. They told me to strictly follow the colonoscopy preparation instructions which went something like this:”
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board COVID-19 and its variants continue to dominate the news media and the front burners of medical researchers. There is confusion about COVID tests among the general population and there are differences of opinions among medical experts causing head-scratching — ‘What’s going on?’ Testing Basics 1) What are the different types of COVID-19 tests? Currently, there
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Parkinson’s disease is a chronic, neurodegenerative, and progressive disorder of the brain causing motor and non-motor symptoms. It’s chronic because symptoms persist for more than 3 months. PD is a neuro-degenerative because the disease causes a deterioration, and loss of specific nerve cells in part of the brain called the substantia nigra which secretes the hormone dopamine. Dopamine sends
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Rib fractures are common injuries, and ordinarily heal on their own after four to six weeks. However, if you, or someone you know has had a broken rib(s), you are familiar with severe pain. Your ribcage acts like a shield protecting your lungs, heart, blood vessels, nerves and, internal organs from injury. You have
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board A variant of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) was reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on November 24, 2021. The new, highly transmissible variant of concern, Omicron, was first detected in Botswana on November 11, 2021, three days later in South Africa and on December 1, the variant was confirmed in the United States. Despite the heightened attention given to Omicron, the Delta variant
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Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board Parkinson disease is commonly referred to as a movement disorder of the nervous system that progresses slowly over time. The gradual reduction of dopamine in brain cells causes patients to typically experience motor (movement) symptoms of PD which include tremor (shakiness), rigid muscles, balance problems, difficulty walking and slowness or absence of movement. A previous article discussed the motor symptoms
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