During their first months of life, babies may seem to be exclusively focused on eating, sleeping, crying, cooing, and passing various forms of waste products. But there is increasing evidence from ingeniously designed studies that babies are Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2013
BRCA Screening under Partnership HealthPlan
With the courageous public revelation of her decision for prophylactic bilateral mastectomy due to her BRCA deleterious mutation status, actress Angelina Jolie has brought into the public eye testing to determine genetic risk for developing Continue reading
How to ensure follow-up when a sick patient moves away?
Have you ever been concerned about follow up of a patient with tuberculosis, HIV, Hepatitis C, a complicated pregnancy, or complicated diabetes who is moving out of your area, or out of the country? Continue reading
Adverse childhood experiences impact adult’s health
Childhood experiences have an enormous impact on people’s health in adulthood. This blog post is not based on any new breakthroughs or just-published research. Rather, it is a reminder to all clinicians to keep in mind the ACE Study as we Continue reading
The Zoster Vaccine? It’s a Cinch!
There are approximately one million cases of herpes zoster (HZ) every year in the US. HZ is the re-emergence of latent childhood varicella-zoster in the form of a painful outbreak of vesicles that track along a peripheral dermatome. Shingles, the term Continue reading