Labor Day is the symbolic end of summer. When the temperatures are still running 100 degrees it’s tough to convince yourself that summer is really at an end. I was fortunate enough to have worked remotely from a couple of…
Would you take advice on immunizations for your children from the man who advocated Lysol for Covid-19? I think not. We already have a record number of measle cases this year mainly because kids are not being vaccinated. Crazy. If…
Covid 19 is on the rise…again, but it doesn’t seem to be as bad as last summer, yet. Most people who I have tested for cyclospora have something else. Here is a recent article about what else is going around.…
My nurse, Amber Allen, gave me this several years ago. It has provoked a lot of conversation. It should probably be updated to have Chat GPT on it. This is an article from last week’s Wall Street Journal which discusses…
Dr. Herbert Dupont, is a world recognized expert on infectious diarrhea. He has been on the faculty of both Baylor University and the McGovern School of Medicine in Houston. He has been a member of the Texas Club of Internists…
Traveling abroad? You can check out your destination on the CDC’s website. Destinations | Travelers’ Health | CDC While some of the CDC’s vaccine advice is suspect, I haven’t found anything on this section of the website recently that I found…
it’s heating up out there and I wanted to pass on some helpful summer advice that I have given before, but it’s worth repeating. It’s a mixture of some old information with some new updates. I will be doing some…
I get over 200 hours of continuing medical education annually. Most of this comes from researching subjects online. It doesn’t include hours spent reading The New England Journal of Medicine, The Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, The Medical Letter or…
Avoiding Heat Stroke Summer is heating up. As we get older, our thermostats may not function as they did when we were younger making us more vulnerable to heat related illness. Here is some information from Up To Date on…
Here is some information on the tweaks for next fall’s new covid 19 vaccine based on the latest variants. That is the advantage of this technology. It is quicker to make updates versus the flu vaccine the strains of which…
