Disease

Influenza, “the flu,” is more than a bad cold.  Seasonal outbreaks yearly cause not only tremendous misery and debility but huge numbers of hospital admissions and deaths.

As a vascular surgeon, while having cared for many frail individuals, I was first exposed to the concept of frailty as a syndrome in 2011. Frailty requires special handling, like a prized antique.

This past April I reported that Vaxart, a small San Francisco vaccine biotech, was ready to start dosing volunteers with its experimental vaccine against norovirus, aka, the stomach flu, in Phase Ib studies (See 

This is not the MRSA pandemic, ladies and gentlemen. Let's take a look at the MRSA pandemic. In  US hospitals, even today (latest CDC data is from 2014), 46% of S.

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Evidence-based medicine, it seems commonsensical; who could argue about using the best evidence available to make treatment decisions?

The headline of an article by Erika Edwards, a health and medical reporter for NBC News, seems like nothing special. "This year's flu season may be a bad one. Here's why you need a flu shot."

Mosquitoes suck, both literally and figuratively. No other animal on Earth is responsible for more human deaths than the lowly mosquito.

Some medical conditions are especially frustrating to physicians because they lack not only effective treatments but even a reliable means of diagnosis.

One of the great challenges to our immune system is to recognize “foreign invaders.” And there can be no greater foreign invader than that little bundle of joy we call all children, especially during pregnancy.