There was the time several years ago when she told an emergency room doctor that the antibiotic he wanted to prescribe wouldn’t counteract the kind of urinary tract infection she had. He wouldn’t listen, even when she mentioned her professional …
“A single bad situation like that gets a lot of coverage, but hundreds of millions of doses and second doses have been administered in a very effective, accurate and careful way,” said Jennifer Kertanis, the director of health for the …
Vaccine mix-ups are rare and there are systems in place to keep it that way Read More »
While so much of our conversations around health is rightly focused on Covid-19, there are other health developments to discuss with our medical providers. The US Preventive Services Task Force announced new draft recommendations around aspirin use on October 12. …
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“J&J is a very good vaccine. I also believe it’s probably a two-shot vaccine,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. “It’s really urgent that people get that second shot pretty quickly. “Probably one …
Editor’s note: Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon with Orlando Health and president of the Florida Urological Society. This was one of the messages I received over the past 24 hours. Yes, men can get urinary tract …
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Gupta and Rogan — whose views often were at odds — discussed the pandemic, vaccines, potential therapeutics and the risk coronavirus poses to children and young people, among many other subjects. “That’s half the country, probably more, when you talk …
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The CDC’s number one advice is for all those who are eligible to get the Covid-19 vaccine before people get together and travel at the holidays. For kids ages 11 and under who aren’t yet eligible to get the vaccine, …
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Unvaccinated adults faced a six times higher risk of testing positive for Covid-19 throughout the month, and In the last week of August, the risk of being hospitalized was nearly 19 times higher for unvaccinated adults than fully vaccinated adults. …
That’s definitely not enough, but what can you do? Hold their eyelids closed? If it were that easy, we’d all have tried. It is one of the great frustrations and ironies of parenting that getting your child to do something …
It’s one of the many skills that I want her to know in case she ever finds herself stranded in a parking lot — just like her father at that very moment. I also wanted to get her familiar with …
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