Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board Diane is a 57 year old housewife who has been treated for hypertension and elevated cholesterol for many years. She complained of a runny nose, nasal congestion, and a slight headache for a few days, and thought it was just a “common cold.” But her condition quickly deteriorated when she experienced extreme fatigue, loss of the sense of smell,
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Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board I think it’s “problematical for people to listen to me. I cannot listen to myself on TV. … I feel sorry for you guys having to listen to me,” said the presidential 2024 candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in his raspy voice in News Nation’s Town Hall meeting in Chicago on June 28, 2023. He acknowledged the challenge people have paying attention to a person’s halting,
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Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board Mom took her four year old son Gregory to the pediatrician wanting to know what’s causing the dark circles under his eyes. Arlo, a 63 year farmer told his family doctor that the dark circles under his eyes have gotten worse over the last few years. “Is there anything I can do about it, Doc?” Dark
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Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board One of the things we take for granted is a good voice, one that is strong, easily understood and of good quality. We have a problem when a voice disorder interferes with our ability to communicate with family and friends, or to earn a living. As we get older, our voice can change. People, in their sixties or older, can experience changes in the voice box
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Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board “The risk of mental illness in a child is about one in 10. The risk of spinal bifida in a child is about one in 1000. Yet, every woman takes folic acid to avoid spina bifida risk. We ought to think about every woman taking choline to avoid that mental illness risk which is one in 10. If we could make sure that a baby builds a better
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Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board At times, medical breakthroughs happen by sheer accident, and keen observation. Such accidental discoveries have changed the course of medicine. Consider the accidental discovery of penicillin. “In 1928 Dr. Alexander Fleming returned from a holiday to find mold growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. He noticed the mold seemed to be preventing the bacteria around it from growing. He named the chemical
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Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board Exosomes are microscopic, round, or oval sac-like structures that contain proteins, lipids, RNA, and DNA. They’re produced inside the cell by almost all cell types, and are released into the extracellular space, the space outside the cell. They’re about one 100th the size of a human cell and are also known as Extracellular
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Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board Aside from water, green tea ranks as the world’s second most popular beverage. People have been drinking green tea for thousands of years and in almost the same fashion. It all started, according to one legend, when the Chinese Emperor Shennong in 2737 BC was sitting under a tea tree. A few leaves fell from the tree
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Joeph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board Mouth sores are tender or painful lesions that appear on the inside of your mouth. They can appear on the tongue, gums, inner cheeks, roof of the mouth, or be found on the inside of the lip. The lesions damage the mucous membrane, a delicate tissue that lines the inside of the mouth making it difficult to swallow, eat, and talk.
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Joseph R. Anticaglia, MD Medical Advisory Board I was saddened when a close friend and colleague informed me that he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was advised of the treatment choices, and opted for a combination of radiation treatment and chemotherapy. After four months of treatment, I received another call from Daniel letting me know that his kidneys completely shut down due to the chemotherapy drugs.
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