Disease

“being in poverty is bad for one’s health.”

We all know people who said, “I had COVID, but it wasn’t too bad after the first couple of days.  After that, I had a cough and was tired for maybe a week.  Pretty much like the flu.” 

In the bad old days, studies suggested that if hospitalized with COVID vs. seasonal influenza, your chance of dying was fivefold greater – a number guaranteed to catch your attention.

"Because of our traditions, We've kept our balance for many, many years. …

If your family or friends have not been touched by Parkinson’s Disease, a neurologic disorder characterized by uncontrolled or unintended movement, Michael J. Fox is the person that might come to mind.

The Climate of the Dead Sea The Dead Sea:

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is perhaps the world’s most prestigious medical journal, so it is both interesting and informative to see its editors’ compilation of what they consider its “notable articles” of the previous year. T

One of our standard medications used in caring for the critically ill is steroids, more specifically glucocorticoids.

Cancer of the prostate gland is extremely common – so common, in fact, that in some form it will affect most men if they live long enough.

Medicine is notoriously slow to change, which is, in many ways, a good thing because it allows time for a concept to be tested and shown to have value.