Infectious Diseases
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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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mRNA VACCINE EFFICACY
Who really knows how effective mRNA vaccines are for COVID-19. All degrees of outrageous claims about them are made back…
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MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES: What are they? What do they do?
This is a difficult subject to write about. Difficult because to understand it, you must possess basic knowledge of the…
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“COVID-19 VACCINE BOOSTERS SAVE LIVES”
Yes, they really do! And The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is proud to report that fact. Two…
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COVID-19 VACCINE-MYOCARDITIS LINK INSIGNIFICANT
Last summer, there was a lot of fuss about a link between mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 and the occurrence of…
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WHEN DO YOU NEED ANTIBIOTICS BEFORE DENTAL WORK?
Twice-yearly visits to the dentist have been my routine since childhood when my mother took me to Dr. Donagh in…
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ZOOM CALLS ARE AWESOME!
You’ve probably never heard of Eric S. Yuan. I hadn’t until I got the urge to write a blog about…
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