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      <title>Is Universal Coverage Enough...No!!</title>
      <description>Like many of you, I have watched intently as the heated debate regarding healthcare reform plays out </description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:58:21 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Will your next xray lead to Cancer?</title>
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A new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that physicians may be over</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:47:12 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Smoking, Hypertension Diabetes lead to Dementia-What's bad for the heart is bad for the Brain</title>
      <description>Smoking, high blood pressure, and diabetes may lead to dementia
August 20, 2009 | Allison Gandey 
A</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:46:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>As if you needed another reason to avoid Beef</title>
      <description>Red meat has been conclusively linked to increased risk of heart attack, stroke and peripheral artery</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:34:52 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Is plavix really a life saver?</title>
      <description>Below is an exerpt from a direct to consumer advertisement on clopidogrel----

If you have been dia</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:32:57 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Is the Benefit of exercise overblown!!</title>
      <description>I recently came across this article in the NY Times. It raises the question about the benefits of exe</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:11:14 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>An Over Medicated Nation!!!</title>
      <description>A situation that happened in my practice this week motivated me to look up some information about Ame</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 14:12:31 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Your Waist Size Predicts Heart Attack Risk</title>
      <description>I was reviewing a recent paper on the associations of BMI, waist size and hip to waist ration as pred</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:34:57 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Red Meat- A Heart Attack Waiting!!</title>
      <description>The findings appear in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine.

Over 10 years, eating the equivalen</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:13:03 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>DVT Awareness Month</title>
      <description>March is DVT (Deep Venous Thromboses) awareness month. A time to educate and inform the public about </description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:57:53 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Helpful Ways to Avoid Medical Errors</title>
      <description>I sit on an advisory board for our state that focuses on medical errors. Medical errors can occur in </description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:08:28 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Five Reliable (Surefire) ways to avoid Heart Disease in 2009</title>
      <description>Patients always ask how they can avoid getting heart disease. I could give you a million things that </description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:21:01 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Optimal Health in 2009- Happy New Year MedHelp</title>
      <description>Happy New Year to all of the Medhelp family. The goal to provide a community where people may convene</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:48:09 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title> Is it Time to think about Healthy New Years Resolution?</title>
      <description>A healthy lifestyle requires commitment and discipline. I firmly believe this fact. It is not easy to</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:10:59 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Are your vitamins effective or just placebo?</title>
      <description>My co author in my book Your Guide to Optimal Health, has a weekly appearance on Fox News health segm</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:44:12 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Stress and its affect on the deveopment of chronic diseases</title>
      <description>In my book The Guide to Optimal Health: Creating Your Personal Wellness Wheel, we present an eight st</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:32:19 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>Cardiovascular disease prevention and more...Your Guide to Optimal Health</title>
      <description>The rewarding feeling that I receive from the practice of vascular surgery is tremendous. The field i</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:29:45 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>PAD Awareness Month</title>
      <description>I encourage everyone to make sure that you observe PAD awareness Month by encouraging those around yo</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:26:29 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Early Diagnosis of Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Decreases Heart Attack Risk</title>
      <description>My non profit organization The PAD Coalition (www.beatpad.org) kicked off the season with a visit to </description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:11:41 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Elevated Choleterol 101-who needs to be treated</title>
      <description>There are always a lot of questions about the "art" or treating cholesterol. It's a good time to refr</description>
      <dc:creator>Lee  Kirksey, MD</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:18:30 -0500</pubDate>
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