Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 22, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Liver issues with oral antifungal meds, low blood pressure, obstructive sleep apnea in a young woman, a skin growth, left arm and finger numbness, diabetes medications and pancreativ cancer, and leg [...]
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Category: Wednesday House CallAfternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 15, 2013
Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Today:Multivitamins, cardiac stress tests, a woman with a positive TB test, the definition of an outbreak, H. Pylori treatment,and muscle aches after taking Lipitor,
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 8, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: No evidence that neck manipulation can treat Meniere’s disease, chelation therapy, knee dislocation and nerve damage, conversion disorder after a traumatic event, and pacemker/defibrillator power supply.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 1, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 24, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Elevated muscle CK enzymes: what does it mean?, bowel fistula, degenerative disk disease, osteoporosis, using a “pill cam”, and surgery for an ACL tear.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 17, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Fusion of cervical vertebra and painful hip, calorie-restricted lifestyle to prong lifespan, sciatic nerve damage, ingrown toe nails and back surgery.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 10, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: plantar warts, seasonal allergies and dermatographism, osteopathy, medication review for diabetes, the epigenetics of diabetes, plantar fasciitis, and recovering from a fractured pelvis.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 27, 2013
Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Today: C. difficile infections at the Ottawa Hospital put in perspective, kidney stones, enlarged rib in 13 year old athletic girl, toe nail fungal infections, and restless leg syndrome
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 20, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Creatine and protein supplements when training, bronchitis, shingles vaccine, meniscal tear of the knee, neuropathy, and heartburn
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 6, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Food advertising, carotid stenosis, diagnosing diabetes, and a fractured wrist followed by Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 26, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:St. John’s Wort and drug interactions, swollen optic nerves and headache, strange changes in blood pressure, carotid artery blockages, and enlarged adenoids in a two year-old girl
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 20, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 13, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Shingles pain, persistent cold symptoms, osteoarthritis treatments, and other questions
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 6, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: fractured tail bone, trigger thumb, monitoring cholesterol level after beginning a statin medication, cardiac arrythmias, frozen shoulder pain management, perfume fume exposure problems, fat on thighs and legs, and tonsilitits. [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 30, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 23, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 16, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 9, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Hunger strikes, diastolic dysfunction, nighttime gastric reflux, labrynthitis and the Eply manoeuver, and weight loss strategies.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 2, 2013 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Bogus therapies and snake oil
Afternoon Edition - Wednesday House Call January 2, 2013 - Health Hucksterism Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAfternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call December 19, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Pierre Bourque to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Musculoskeletal stress injuries, Asperger’s, treatment of atrial fibrillation, use of plavix after coronary artery angioplasty, benign tremors, hip replacement surgery and pain management , and carpal tunnel syndrome
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call December 12, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Pierre Bourque to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation Today: Gastric reflux Disease, knee replacement surgery after an osteotomy, anal fissures, plantar fasciitis, and loss of taste sensitivity after eating pineapple.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call December 5, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 28, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 21, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Treatment of chronic pain, using Propecia (finasteride) to prevent hair loss and trying to determine if a medication is causing muscle pain.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 14, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Pierre Bourque to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Panic and anxiety in 9 -year-old-girl. New in onset and given an antidepressant? Chronic fatigue and common causes. What is the workup required and what environmental influences can have [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 7, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Inguinal/groin pain remains undiagnosed, a caller asks about risk of Guillan Barre Syndrome concerns with Menactra vaccine (it is almost nonexistent), ankle swelling when sitting for a few hours, and can [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 31, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Flu shots should be mandatory for all health care workers, flu vaccine for immunocompromised people, hypoglycemia, the effects of diabetes on an elderly woman, smoking cessation and the onset [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 24, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: OMA junk-food tax and other proposals, breast cancer metastases, flu vaccine for those with autoimmune disease, dizzy spells from benign positional vertigo, partial knee replacement and hip bursitis, [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 17, 2012
Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Today:When should an abdominal (ventral) hernia be repaired?, spina bifida, when to operate if you have gallstones, shigles vaccine, viscosupplementation for osteoarthritic knee joints, and cholesterol-lowering medications.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 3, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Flu season and why you should get a flu shot, Ottawa Public Health opens catch-up HPV vaccine (Gardasil) clinics for girls 14-19 years. Plus calls about how to detect skin [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 26, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: General anaesthesia versus spinal for knee replacement surgery, bloated stomach, low platelet levels and wasp stings.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 12, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Pure versus refined peanut butter, viral vs. bacterial throat infections, organic vegetables, numb knee skin after Oxford knee replacement, does it matter where your calcium supplement comes from?, unresponsive bladder [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 5, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Elevated ferritin, buspirone for anxiety, sore hip and leg, and elevated tropinin but ni heart damage
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call August 29, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Laser therapy for smoking cessation: more snakeoil, e-cigarettes, plastic surgery for mallet finger, abdominal sports injury, right foot pain, and weight gain problems.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call August 22, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call August 1, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Marketing gluten-free products to those who do not need it, low blood pressure, myelodysplastic syndrome, and PSA testing
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call July 25, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Whooping cough outbreak, swollen leg and foot, bags under the eyes, health care system issues, hormone replacement therapy, shingles vaccine
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call July 18, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Numb thumb, OHIP card fraud, side effects of Lipitor, groin pain, painful ear and loss of sensation in the jaw, and post-polio syndrome
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call July 11, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Reports of high earning physicians used to denigrate the profession, sciatica, hearing loss, and progesterone questions
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call July 4, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Elliot Finkleman to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call June 27, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Germany’s decision to ban circumcision, thyroid disease, intestinal parasites, and low iron levels
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call June 20, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:broken ribs, concussion, asmtha, health service cut backs and questions about haldol use in the elderly.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call June 13, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Vaccine awareness, gout treatment options, low ferritin levels, fatty liver disease, rib fractures, and severe sciatic-like pain
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call June 6, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Peyronie’s disease, patellofemoral syndrome, and poison ivy.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 30, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Specialist referral gymnastics, post thyroidectomy calcium problems, chest pain, post-operative eye problems, thickened nails, and generalized body itching
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 23, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Swollen tongue and throat with body bruising, cornea damage, and more on the cutback on health care issue
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 16, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:What is an EMG?, medications for psoriasis, angina and low blood pressure, and the extra 5 minutes a day home care announcement from the McGuinty Government.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 9, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: The Ontario Government’s continued misinformation campaign to smear doctors and the law of unintended consequences.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 2, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews misrepresentation and demonization of doctors income and the negotiations impasse, schizophrenia and knee pain.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 25, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Bunions leading to knee and hip pain, skin ankle infection, granuloma annulare, and sciatic-like pain.
