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Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 16, 20233 min read
Diabetes in Our Littles
This isn't the first time I've written about diabetes, nor I am sure, will it be my last. Diabetes has become a true epidemic, alongside...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 9, 20235 min read
Babesiosis
Lyme disease is difficult to diagnose. Testing to identify its presence is often negative, for a variety of reasons, and when exposed to...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 5, 20234 min read
Hepatitis C
This is one of the more commonly missed chronic diseases in conventional medicine. Hepatitis C is an infection of the liver and it can...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Feb 2, 20239 min read
Hypertension: The Silent Killer
High blood pressure (hypertension) affects almost a third of our population, with 75 percent of those individuals prescribed medications...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 22, 20236 min read
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease: Peripheral Nerves
This disease is genetic, although often goes undiagnosed. It affects the nerves that transmit information and signals, from the brain and...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 20, 20232 min read
Elevated Calcium in the Blood
High blood calcium is a condition of too much calcium in the blood. We catch these on routine blood draws, or rarely individuals have...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 19, 20238 min read
Hypercupremia: Copper Toxicity
Zinc and copper levels are a common evaluations in our practice, as when out of balance, these two minerals can have quite the impact on...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 19, 20233 min read
Juvenile Arthritis: Pediatric Rheumatic Disease
Interestingly, this really isn't a specific disease. Juvenile Arthritis is an umbrella term to describe the inflammatory and rheumatic...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 13, 20235 min read
How Do We Differ from Other Primary Care Practices?
There are a number of ways, endless ways, that we differ. We are more different than we are the same to be honest, but today when I was...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 8, 20235 min read
Encopresis: Stool Incontinence in Children
Not having a huge pediatric practice, I must admit how surprised I am by the number of pediatric clients I care for who suffer with stool...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 5, 202310 min read
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Many years ago, while watching the sitcom Parenthood with Ray Romano and the hunky, Dax Shepard, it occurred to my former husband that he...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Jan 5, 20234 min read
Uveitis: Inflammation in the Eye
Not a super common scenario, but if for whatever reason an individual's immune system is working especially hard, such as fighting an...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Nov 22, 20229 min read
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS)
Not a pathology we typically learn in school. I don't remember it in any of the textbooks I read, and I am a self-proclaimed nerd; I do...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Nov 21, 20226 min read
Tinnitus: 101 Causes
This one is a fun one in that there are a plethora of underlying causes for #tinnitus, and sadly, most of what I hear from clients is...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Nov 20, 20225 min read
Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia: Subtype of non-Hodgkins
A rare blood cell cancer, Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia is characterized by an excess of abnormal white blood cells in the bone marrow....
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Dr. Penny Lane
Nov 4, 20227 min read
Well Child Checks: Getting Beyond the Immunization Schedule
Assessing children and adolescents really is an art, maybe more so than it is even a highly sophisticated science. Children themselves...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Oct 30, 20228 min read
Unpopular View: Xanax
As a sufferer of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, I have long been a fan of Xanax. Yep, those words will get twisted and used against me...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Oct 16, 20224 min read
Crohn's Disease
Inflammation can occur at any point anywhere from your mouth to your bum. This may relate to a genetic susceptibility or result from...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Oct 5, 20223 min read
Vaping & The Risks
Cloud chasing has become quite common among teenagers and young adults, even among a few of my own not-so-little ones unfortunately, and...
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Dr. Penny Lane
Sep 29, 20226 min read
Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency
Maldigestion is a challenging presentation for clinicians as a plethora of concerns can be at play. One that seems to be commonly missed...
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