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Like most healthcare workers, I was thrilled when I was eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. I’ve been involved in COVID-19 patient car...

Acne affects millions of Americans each year and impacts people of all skin tones, yet acne can pose special challenges in people with darke...

Headaches come in lots of varieties, and some are easily recognizable. A migraine classically causes throbbing, pounding pain that lasts for...

It’s safe to say that 2020 gave us more than enough to cry about. Yet even prior to last year, it seems that we were crying fairly often. Re...

In times like these, it can feel wrong to feel happy. There is so much suffering in the world that appreciating the goodness that still exis...

As COVID-19 vaccines roll out across the US, many grandparents — including one co-author of this blog post — are thrilled to hold out their...

We all want our children to be able to go back to school. What we don’t want is for them — or their teachers — to get sick from COVID-19.Th...

High or abnormal cholesterol levels, inflammation, and endothelial dysfunction play a key role in atherosclerosis and plaque buildup, the mo...

Hemorrhoids are painful, unpleasant, and, um, well, difficult to talk about. But they actually are quite common: about half of people over a...

Do you ever wish that a certain person in your life would make the effort to truly understand where you’re coming from? That ability — being...

In recent years, there’s been a veritable explosion in the number and type of health monitoring devices available in smartphones and fitness...

Body mass index, or BMI, has long been the standard tool for assessing weight status and health risk. A calculation of your size that takes...

Many Americans cannot wait to get the COVID-19 vaccine. They call hotline numbers. They search online for vaccine clinics. They wait for hou...

Do all kids spy? Just me? When I was a child, I spent hours snooping in my parents’ nightstands, Granny’s pocketbook, my older brothers’ dre...

March 11th, 2020 — or was it March 12th, or a few days before or beyond that? Each of us has a date and time etched in our minds when we kne...

It’s something people don’t like to think about, but it’s a fact that dust mites are all around us. These mites are microscopic relatives of...

Chocolates and flowers are great gifts for Valentine’s Day. But what if the gifts we give this year could be truly life-changing? A gift tha...

While endometriosis is a common condition, affecting as many as one in every 10 American women, it is complex and often misunderstood. Endom...

Just about every single one of us is spending too much time in front of a screen these days. Many, if not most, of us are spending most of o...

As the pandemic rages on, it’s increasingly clear that widespread vaccination is essential to help contain it. Physical distancing, universa...

Trouble staying focused and paying attention are two familiar symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a common health i...

Most newborn babies turn at least a little bit yellow. Known as jaundice, this condition is a very common and usually normal part of the new...

My first exposure to kidney disease and its impact on communities of color occurred when I was in high school. An elderly neighbor, who was...

A recent blog post discussed a newly approved imaging agent with an unwieldy name: gallium-68 PMA-11. Delivered in small amounts by injectio...

Perhaps this is obvious, but drug ads are not intended to inform you about the best way to treat a condition you may have. Their primary pur...