The following is a summary from Journal Watch, a publication which provides summaries of important medical studies from AUTHORITATIVE medical journals around the world. The reason authoritative was in CAPS is that a lot of the articles that patients send…
So you have a respiratory infection and feel crummy. You decide to isolate at home. What do you do? These are the guidelines from UpToDate: Home care — Home management is appropriate for patients with mild infection who can be adequately…
I’ve written a number of notes today for worried individuals who are concerned that the caregivers for their loved ones will be pulled over by the police on their way to work and prevented from getting to their jobs. Home…
In this morning’s Wall Street Journal (which has a lot of good medical articles BTW), there was mention of the possibility of a lot of people being asymptomatic carriers of Covid-19. Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned about taking our eyes of…
This is the equipment which includes mask, gloves, gown and eye shields that health professionals use to keep safe. The problem is, there is a shortage of it. We have gloves and masks, but are waiting on shipments of gowns…
Even before President Trump made his statements about hydroxychloroquine people have been asking for prescriptions. That and azithromycin which were used in some of the tiny studies that are widely circulated as supporting their use. Yesterday, the Texas State Board…
First of all here is the link that didn’t attach to yesterday’s post to the Washington Post article that tells what the FDA really said about chloroquine: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/19/trump-calls-anti-malarial-drug-game-changer-coronavirus-fda-says-it-needs-study/ We are expecting the first Covid test kits early next week. We…
There you have it. Actually, the FDA is not anymore sure today than yesterday.
Not everything that you read on the internet is true, especially these days. Most of this is well meaning, but some of it is not. Case number one: I was exercising and got a text at 17:58 from a patient…
The bottom line is we don’t know, but I’ve been asked this question 5( a sixth time while writing this) times today, including from a neurologist who takes it for other reasons. This stems mainly from a jerry-rigged article that…
