Ah, those end-of-year round-ups we all love and cherish…NOT. We here at Doc Gurley are not fans of the widespread New Year’s tradition of
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(probably auto-posted) re-hashing previous articles as filler-bytes. However sometimes a leftover is as good as a meal. Or even better. That’s the case with a year’s round-up of BOGUS awards. [...]
The economic downturn has left even more people struggling to pay for
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their prescription medications. If you’re having trouble, you’re not alone. In fact, almost 40 million of us – especially women – are affected. Here is a round-up of valuable, accurate advice for how to make your drug dollars go further, as well [...]
We here at Doc Gurley were more than a tad bit dismayed to find a stinky lump of programming coal in our Christmas stocking. It
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appears that someone inserted a tiny amount of pustulant code on our site on October 28. This bit of bytes silently festered until Christmas Eve. Like a [...]
We apparently have a problem with some browsers and the docgurley.com site and some issue with Google’s detection of problem software on the site. We can assure you there is no problem software on the site although there may be a problem with one of the software tools used by the site or even in [...]
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This week’s theme for Grand Rounds, the weekly roundup of top posts from medical blogs, is on the theme of gift, giving and year-end perspectives. It is being held at Highlight Health and, given the topic and the time of year is not only topical and timely, but also a (Christmas) Cracker!
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A new report in Circulation, taking away with one hand while giving back with the other, shows conclusively that being even a little overweight still increases your likelihood of heart disease. The good news is that it also shows that even a little exercise decreases your risk.
The study, which followed over 21,000 people [...]
I was immensely flattered to be named a hero-of-the-week at Tonic News in their Green Dimes section.
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Annie Scott referred to me as “the Dave Barry of medicine.” For those of you who’ve followed my Dave Barry obsession (I’ve had the shakes ever since they closed the Dave-Barry-for-President forum), you’ll understand why her lovely [...]
Sweet news indeed. Sugars that are added to foods are often derived from wheat-based starch
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hydrolysates, like dextrose, malto-dextrin and glucose syrups. Studies have shown that these substances are present in over 50% of European processed foods (not sure how prevalent in the U.S., but I’d bet at least as common, if not more [...]
Laurie, over at A Chronic Dose, has pulled together an amazing Grand Rounds. In fact, if you’ve never taken
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the time to dive into this weekly round-up of the health blogosphere, this is when you want to take the plunge! It’s the Best Of edition – every poster was asked to submit their best [...]
Time to sip a little hot cider, put the old dogs up, lean back and let the Doc Gurley high-velocity-contortionist-shopping team take you on a whirlwind tour of the best Treats for the Streets! With real-time, gold medal caliber performance-gifting (and a guest judge commentator!). Let the holiday mood take you!
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