Infectious Diseases
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MORE ABOUT SUGAR IN OUR DIET
Recently, I reported information that certain amounts of sugar in our diet were tied directly to increased risk of a…
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SORE THROATS AND TONSILLECTOMY
In May, 2019, I wrote a blog about tonsillectomies and the onerous criteria specialty societies required of a patient before…
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BLADDER INFECTIONS AND CRANBERRY JUICE!
Antibiotic resistance has become a big problem in today’s medical world. The overprescribing of antibiotics has enabled bacteria to mutate…
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PROSTATITIS
Prostatitis is a disease entity found only in men. The reason, of course, is that only men have a prostate.…
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RABIES: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
RABIES: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW The following is a real life scenario I faced a number of years ago. It…
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MOST COVID-19 DEATHS WORLDWIDE WERE AMONG OLDER PEOPLE.
The high mortality rate from COVID-19 among the elderly was a fact everyone knew, but a lot of people ignored.…
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ANTIBIOTIC OVER-PRESCRIBERS IDENTIFIED
In the “CDC Tackles Antibiotic Resistance” blog, I mentioned over-prescribing of antibiotics by physicians as the underlying cause of antibiotic…
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“MONO”: INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS
I thought for sure I wrote a blog about “MONO” a few years ago, but if I did, I can’t…
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PNEUMONIA VACCINE SIMPLIFIED!
Well, what do you know?! Finally something in medicine is simpler. Finally, instead of a confusing, multi-drug treatment regimen, a…
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SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED DISEASES: AN AGE-OLD PROBLEM
Sexually transmitted diseases, now renamed Sexually Transmitted Infections, have been a problem for centuries. The pre-eminent Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD),…
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