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Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 11, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 4, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: Is sugar toxic?, aflatoxin, meds for COPD, concussion, elevated ferritin levels, and hyperhydrosis.  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 28, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: Fatty liver disease, why codeine does not work for some, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and interpreting PSA tests  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 21, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: VRE, hair loss in women, right leg swelling and the Ornge fiasco as reported by the Ontario Auditor General  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 14, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today:Soda water, cinnamon tablets, atrial flutter, bunion treatments, diabetes control with weight loss.  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 7, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: Double vision, cerebeelar atrophy, Bone cancer questions, and elbow inflammation extending to the hand.  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 29, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: Tendon lacerations of the hand, quackery to remove belly fat, capsaicin offers aclue to chronic rib pain, cryotherapy vs laser for removal of facial moles, [...]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 22, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: Burning sensation in the leg, the outdoor smoking ban, 5th metarsal head fracture, and thyroid nodules.  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 15, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: The Drummond Report  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 8, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: Skipped heart beats, grinding teeth and restless legs, leg pain, stage 3 lung cancer treatment options, sleep disorders and low back/flank pain  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 1, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: The Strawman Argument but forth by Ontario Health Minister regarding health expenditures, coconut extract for dementia, iron overload, shingles recurrence and the difference between herpes zoster and [...]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 25, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: Gastric byoass surgery, chronic sinus congestion, chronic migraines, muscle aches, abdominal and pelvic adhesions after surgery, erectile dysfunction, and questions about statins  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 18, 2012   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: Numbness in the feet, tiny skin bumps on the arms, SPECT scans, medication side effects in the elderly, Trillium drug plan, pain in the back of the head, and [...]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January , 2012

Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.

Today: Sore wrist after surgery, weight loss strategies must include behaviour modification, post concussion syndrome, PET scans, and Raynaud’s Phenomenon

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 4, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Anna Drahovzal to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Dog hair skin irritation, nail fungal infections, leg rah and pain, leg numbness, hypertension, and blood in the urine

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call December 28, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Year-end health stats recap

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call December 14, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today:Plantar Fasciitis, c.difficile, peptic ulcer disease, red rash on a breast, Grover’s Disease and rotator cuff tear pain management

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call December 7, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Concussions’ brain damage effects, a spot on the lung, cardiac stress stesting and loss of muscle mass.

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 30, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Generic medication concerns and why they are not truly the same as brand-name medications, sinus pain and infections, hepatitis C transmission risks, excessive sweating, and diabetes glucose monitoring [...]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 23, 2011

Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.

 

Today: ablation for atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, warts on the hands, Osgoode-Schlatter, and hip replacement issues

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 16, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: possible osteonecrosis of the knee, rheumatoid factor test, supraspinatus tear and repair, hoarse voice from inhaled steroid use, and treatments for macular degeneration are expensive

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 9, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Chicken pox parties and lollipops, shingles, osteoporosis treatments, ferritin levels and more shingles.

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 2, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Discussion about the flu shot and the need for mandatory requirements for health care workers, angiograms, the difference between echocardiograms, persantine-thallium tests and PET scans, thimerisol is safe, low sodium [...]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 26, 2011   Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.       Today: Dumping syndrome, colonoscopy discomfort, multinodular goiter, osteoarthritis in 44 year-old man, and an 83 year-old woman losing weight  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 19, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.  

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 12, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: What to do about a foreign body in a fingertip, knee pain, crohn’s disease, and a tight knee after knee replacement.

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 5, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Elevated Uric Acid levels and gout, incisional abdominal hernia, low blood pressure with beta-blocker use, treatment of psoriasis

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 28, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: MRI wait times for knee assessment, cigarette paper combustion, physician assistants, rib pain, low magnesium after open heart surgery, stroke

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 21, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Unexplained weight loss, esophageal discomfort, itchy ear canals, vision loss, a burning throat, and can you stop your steroid inhaler?

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 14, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Discussion of explosion of diabetes around the world, vestibular concussion, numb togue, a review of a caller’s mammogram results and hip pain   Today:

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 7, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: We discuss Sidney Crosby’s concussion and hockey future and other calls

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call August 31, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today:Back pain, hepatitis C, C.  difficile and probiotics, DVT post caesarian section risk.

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call August 10 , 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  August 3, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Colon cleansing pseudoscience, screening children for developmental delay, colonoscopy, low back strain, and the development of a third nipple

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  July 27, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: low magnesium levels, treatment of kidney stones, pilonidal cysts/abscesses, bladder cancer, monitoring abdominal aortic aneurysms, spinal myelograms, and hernaiated discs.

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  July 20, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Low blood pressure, an explanation why herpes is not just herpes, it can be shingles, swimmer’s itch, teh use of Ensure as a supplement, psoriasis, and a persisten cough. [...]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  July 13, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Anna Drahovzal to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Teen energy drink consumption, restless leg syndrome, leg cramps, trigeminal neuralgia, knee pain, complete exhaustion, shoulder injuries, rotator cuff tear

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  July 7, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today:Psoriasis, enlarged prostate, urine colour changes, Guillan Barre Syndrome and leg pain, and trigger finger. A discussion about this article on Champix.

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  June 22, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today’s topics, atrial fibrillation and testing, throat spasm, measles, nasal ulcerations, stomach upset with Pradax

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  June 15, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  June 8, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Quebec medical residents cannot work more than 16 hour shifts in hospital according to new Charter rights ruling, numb thumb and index finger, a non-healing wound, hip pain, [...]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  June 1, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: The media hype about cellphones and glioblastoma risk, viscosupplementation for osteoarthritis of the knee, radiowaves and health issues, abrupt cessation of blood pressure medications, and dizziness.

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  May 25, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today’s topics include the measles outbreak in the US, diclofenac emul gel use, prostate cancer treatment options in a man of 82 years of age, insulin injection site choices, Raynauds [...]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  May 18, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today:Wait times, pneumonia, organ donation, and MRIs

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  May 11, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today:Bedbugs that carry superbugs, strokes at night, a splotchy rash, diverticulitis, knee pain and gallstones

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  April 27, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Shingles, torn ACL, bowel function difficulties, cerebral aneurysms, possible nerve root impingement of the neck, and bronchitis

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  April 20, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: ADHD, warfarin doe not cause tooth decay, pradaxa for atrial fibrillation, and fibromyalgia

 

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call,  April 13, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today:Hawthorne for CHF, osteopenia versus osteoporosis, what is a doppler?, menopause and HRT for hot flashes

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call  April 6, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Healthcare system needs an overhaul, numbness in fingers, tingling feet in an 85 year-old diabetic woman, why an x-ray of the neck in a 39 year-old woman with [...]

Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 30, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.   Today: Psoriatic arthritis treatments, who can prescribe it? Vaccines available for adults, pacemaker problems, dry skin and the soaps to choose, and  malaria prophylaxis