Author: Erin Elizabeth

It seems some men still haven’t gotten the memo that women will no longer be treated like second-class citizens. Last month, in an issue devoted to women in medicine, the Dallas Medical Journal asked area doctors what they thought of the fact that female physicians’ salaries are reportedly one-third less than male physicians 1 and one male doc gave a candid and irresponsible response that has the medical community up in arms. (And rightfully so.) Gary Tigges, an internal medicine doctor at Plano Internal Medicine Associates said, “Female physicians do not work as hard and do not see as many patients as male physicians. This...

It’s one of those sentences that everyone knows by the time they hit early adulthood, “An aspirin a day keeps the doctor away.” But does it? Well, according to a trio of studies published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine, no. Turns out that one daily low-dose aspirin doesn’t provide any significant health benefits. Instead, it may actually cause serious harm. “The primary study was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial — considered the gold standard for clinical trials. Researchers at Monash University in Australia recruited nearly 20,000 people in that country and the United States, with a median age of 74....