We all want to protect our older family members and help them stay safe, secure, and independent. Knowing how to reduce the risk of falling, a leading cause of injury, is a step toward this goal. The Reality Each year,…
Roger S. Nasci, Robert A. Wirtz, William G. Brogdon Vaccines or chemoprophylactic drugs are available to protect against some vectorborne diseases such as yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria; however, travel health practitioners should advise travelers to use repellents and…
Here are a couple of recent articles dealing with the type of a fat in the diet and mortality and obesity and mortality. Being Modestly Overweight Linked to Increased All-Cause Mortality Risk By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD,…
Antibiotics are often prescribed for upper respiratory tract infections inappropriately. According to the most recent study, 1/3 of antibiotics are prescribed inappropriately. Overuse of antibiotics leads to resistance of bacteria. Here is a summary of a recent JAMA article from…
It’s never too late. From a recent review article on smoking cessation from the Annals of Internal Medicine. Even patients who have lung cancer have an average survival that is longer in those who quit smoking than those who continue…
We are constantly bombarded with medical news. It is part of the fodder of the news media. The problem with this is that information is not all of the same caliber. It doesn’t all carry the same weight. Case in…
Here is a summary from the publication Journal Watch: American Cancer Society Updates Mammography Guidelines for Average-Risk Women American Cancer Society Updates Mammography Guidelines for Average-Risk WomenRecommendations move closer to those of the USPSTF — but differences remain. Recommendations move…
Everyone over the age of 6 months should get the flu vaccine. It used to be so simple; there was just one flu vaccine. Now we have high dose, trivalent, quadrivalent, intranasal and intradermal, to name a few. Here is…
These are the instructions for retrieving your blood test results from the secure patient portal.Here is it how it works: We collect your personal email address and enter that into our computer system We register you for the Patient Portal…
Stress testing may be useful to screen for heart disease, assess exercise tolerance and blood pressure response to exercise, but the American College of Cardiology does not recommend doing it in patients at low risk for coronary artery disease because…