Let’s face it: Kids are microbe magnets. They also like to share. These tiny humans don’t enter the world knowing that spraying a sneeze into your face or wiping their runny noses and then putting their grubby little hands into…
Year: 2023
BY DAVID INTROCASO In May the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) simultaneously published two proposed Medicaid rules (here and here) intended to improve moreover access and quality. Both discussed at length the agency’s commitment to “addressing health equity.” …
July 12, 2023 — Can a seemingly healthy person develop high blood pressure? The answer is yes: You can develop primary hypertension, or high blood pressure, even if you exercise regularly, eat healthy foods, and don’t smoke. Primary hypertension is…
July 12, 2023 – As children learn to walk and talk, their brains are remarkably open to new information. They gather knowledge from parents, their environment, and trial and error. Teenagers do too, as they adopt the emotional and intellectual…
You might think of mucus – the runny, goopy, or gummy stuff you sneeze out, sniff in, and cough up – as something pesky you never seem to have a tissue for. It might not be sexy, but mucus is…
Photo Credit: diovp / Getty Images SOURCES: Arti Madhavan, MD, specialist-in-chief of family medicine, Detroit Medical Center. Luci Leykum, MD, chief clinical officer, Harbor Health, Austin, TX. Frontiers in Medicine: “COVID-19 and Influenza Co-infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” Cell Research:…
“Today I want you to think about all that you are instead of all that you are not.” ~Unknown I had done it again. I had managed to talk myself out of doing something because I wasn’t completely certain I…
BY KIM BELLARD Attention must be paid: the world is now hotter than it has been in 125,000 years. A week ago, we broke the record for average global temperature. That record was broken the next day. Later in the…
July 11, 2023 – In the seesaw world of trying to maintain a healthy diet, researchers have good news for dairy lovers: Whole-fat foods, particularly dairy, can and should be included in a nutritious diet. The finding flies in the…
July 11, 2023 – Kathy Blackwell is not going to allow a couple of aching joints stop her from living her best life. The 73-year-old resident of Simi Valley, a bedroom community about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles,…