Disease

PTSD The experience of a profound threat can impact us all. For most, it is a transient, although deeply disturbing, experience grounded in

By now, virtually everyone knows many people who have had COVID.

In 910, the Persian physician Al-Razi wrote that measles should be more dreaded than smallpox, an edict echoed in an old proverb:

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A recent study reported in the New England Journal Of Medicine (NEJM) has drawn the attention of the community of physicians and scientists researching and treating

From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have been engaged in forecasting the potential economic and human costs associated with an uncontrolled large-scale pandemic, as well as the corresponding benefits that could be derived from an

Let’s begin with a few generalizations:

Nocturia refers to getting up at night to urinate. Depending upon the frequency, it can be a nuisance or disability, but it remains preferable to not getting up at all when you have to urinate.

Tinnitus is a perceived sound that only you can hear. It might be a ringing, buzz, or tone. It arises not in your ear but in your brain. And because only you can hear it, it is subjective, a symptom, not a sign, so diagnosis can be challenging.

Depending upon when you are reading this, Laurie Engel, a long-time chronic pain patient, may or may not be alive; she has been given about six months to live because of an aggressive, deadly cancer that has now invaded her spine.