Masood N. Khan M.D. F.A.C.P. Through the "Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 and its amendment in April 2014, FDA has regulated consumption of tobacco in the U.S. It is well known that the use of tobacco in cigarettes, cigars, pipes and hookahs is the leading preventable....................

Masood N. Khan M.D., F.A.C.P Ebola virus belongs to the family of ‘filoviridae’ which are shaped like a thread. It is named after a river in Sudan. It is the second virus discovered in the class of thread viruses. The other one is called Marburg virus. It is 80 nanometer....................

Masood N. Khan M.D., F.A.C.P. What is metabolically healthy obesity? This term has come into common usage nowadays. Yes there is such thing as ‘metabolically healthy obesity’. It is defined as overweight condition with a BMI (Body Mass Index – an index of weight and height) of 30 or above....................

Masood N. Khan M.D. Sleep apnea (AP-ne-ah) simply means cessation of breathing during sleep. This occurs as pauses in breathing during sleep lasting from a few seconds to minutes. Such pauses can be quite frequent during the entire sleep. The most common effects of sleep apnea are two. The oxygen....................

Masood N. Khan M.D., F.A.C.P In the olden days when life was simple and families were bound, end of life also used to be a natural and simple event without much fanfare, medico-legal ramifications or physical indignities due to technological advances a dying person is often subjected to, in today’s....................

Masood N. Khan M.D., F.A.C.P. Health reform legislation, called Affordable Care Act and nicknamed Obamacare, could be rightly called President Obama’s biggest achievement. Presently, health care insurance programs are based on private health insurance companies and government programs of Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare, put into law by President Lyndon Johnson....................

Masood N. Khan M.D. The exponential increase in the incidence of diabetes will soon likely make it a pandemic, meaning, so widespread globally that it could assume a rate of spread as that of an infectious disease. People suffering from diabetes around the world have increased from 108 million in....................

Maryam Hamid M.D. The Latest Dietary Guidelines from Departments of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Agriculture (USDA): We have been told many times that regular exercise and consumption of a healthy diet can lead to a host of benefits including increased energy, happiness, health and even long life. It....................

Maryam Hamid M.D. The number of people living with hypertension (high blood pressure) is predicted to be 1.56 billion worldwide by the year 2025. In the US, about 75 million American adults, 29% of the total population, have high blood pressure—that is 1 of every 3 adults. Only about half....................

HORMONE THERAPY AFTER MENOPAUSE DOES NOT INCREASE RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR OR CANCER MORTALITY: A recent study addressing risks involved with harmone therapy after menopaus dispels concerns about increased incidence of breast cancer created by earlier studies. Allcause mortality among 27,347 participants in placebo control trial was 27.1% in hormone therapy....................

1. Exercise improves cognition. A new University of Connecticut analysis of years of previous research suggests there is ample evidence that exercise may delay the decline in cognitive function associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Aerobic exercise has possibly the most favorable effect, according to the study in the Journal of the....................

Reported in JAMA, this is an interesting study that showed how dietary factors contributed to "substantia" portion of deaths from stroke, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Researchers utilized a comparative risk assessment model to estimate deaths that related to poor dietary habits in the intake of 10 dietary factors.....................

1. Artificially sweetened beverages and stroke, coronary heart disease, and all-cause mortality in the Women’s Health Initiative Researchers investigated how self-reported consumption of artificially sweetened beverages (ASB) is associated with stroke and its subtypes, coronary heart disease, and all-cause mortality in a cohort of postmenopausal US women. From the Women’s....................

AnxietyProblems with anxiety are common, especially around the time of menopause. Chamomile extract. This extract, which comes from a flower, has long been used as a therapy for anxiety. Anxiety often goes hand in hand with sleeplessness, so its no surprise that chamomile is also often recommended as a sleep....................

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses found in both animals and humans. Some infect people and are known to cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). A novel coronavirus (CoV) is a....................

CNN : (2/3, Lamotte) reports the study of 30,000 people published in JAMA Internal Medicine “found a small but significant risk of death from any cause tied to eating two servings of processed meat or unprocessed red meat each week.” Moreover, a three-to-seven percent increase in risk for cardiovascular disease....................

Reuters (2/5, Rapaport) reports that “people who eat an egg a day are no more likely than those who rarely eat eggs to have high cholesterol, heart attacks and strokes or to die prematurely, a large study” published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests. Lead author Mahshid Dehghan....................

Reuters : (1/29, Rapaport) reports a study of 921 adults over 80 followed for six years found that participants who consumed the most “flavonols were about half as likely to develop Alzheimer’s than those who consumed the least.” The researchers focused on “four flavonols in particular: kaempferol, which is found....................

The latest guidelines have made the importance of maintaining lower blood pressure numbers abundantly clear. Indeed, now nearly half of American adults are considered to have high blood pressure, with double the risk of heart attacks and strokes as well as increased risk of kidney failure, loss of eyesight, and....................

Statin Commonly Used Cholesterol Lowering Medicine: Statin initiation in older U.S. veterans free from atherosclerotic CVD at baseline reduced the risk for CV and all-cause mortality, researchers found in a retrospective cohort study. In this retrospective analysis, we found that the risk of dying from any cause was lower by....................

(From Harvard Medical School) People with chronic pain may be more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than those without chronic pain, according to a study published online May 7, 2020, by the journal Pain Medicine. From 2001 to 2005, researchers identified 17,614 Taiwanese people who had used....................

As you age it is not uncommon to have occa- sional periods of forgetfulness or “brain fog” where you can’t think clearly or have trouble multitasking and comprehending information. Is it an unfortunate reality of aging or something that can be corrected? It is not wise to ignore it thinking....................

Masood N. Khan M.D. F.A.C.P. Through "The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 and its amendment in April 2014, FDA has regulated consumption of tobacco in the U.S. It is well known that use of tobacco cigarettes, cigars, pipes and hookahs is the leading preventable cause of....................

Masood N. Khan M.D., F.A.C.P. Ebola virus belongs to the family of "filoviridae" which are shaped like a thread. It is named after a river in Sudan. It is the second virus discovered in the class of thread viruses. The other one is called Marbug virus. It is 80 nanometer....................