BY BILLY PERRIGO MARCH 25, 2019 A California-based avocado grower has issued a recall of avocados sent to at least six U.S. states over fears they could be contaminated by potentially fatal bacteria. Henry Avocado said Saturday it was concerned the [...]
BY JAMIE DUCHARME 8:27 AM EDT The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to require mammogram providers to tell women if they have a common risk factor for breast cancer. The proposal, released Wednesday, would be the FDA’s first update to mammography [...]
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KevinMD.com Amy Cho, MD | Physician | January 3, 2019 I am just another average physician. It wasn’t my first return from maternity leave, but this busy ED shift wasn’t going well. I kept putting off breast-pumping to complete “just one [...]
TIME > Health By Markham Heid December 20, 2018 Some people seem to breeze through cold-and-flu season without so much as a sniffle. What’s their secret? Regular exercise is a prime candidate. “If you look at all the lifestyle factors that [...]
MEDPAGE TODAY’S KevinMD.com Philip DeGaetano, MD | Physician | December 17, 2018 Not including residency, I have been caring for patients for five years. But was I really caring about them? We all took the oath to do no harm. We all [...]
MEDPAGE TODAY’S KevinMD.com Gary A. Lindenbaum, MD | Physician | December 2, 2018 I recently read an article entitled “The family said, ‘Do everything.’” It described the case of an elderly patient at the end-stage of life. The article concluded that “If [...]
A COUNTRY DOCTOR, MD | CONDITIONS | NOVEMBER 8, 2018 MEDPAGE TODAY’s KevinMD.com I don’t know how many times a patient has told me, “I was in therapy once, and it didn’t help.” My response is always: “That’s like saying ‘I saw a movie once [...]
TIME Health > Diet/Nutrition Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude, good-will and gluttony. While many people enjoy the holiday feast with abandon, some dieters and healthy eaters stress over the idea of consuming a huge number of calories in one [...]
KevinMD.com Giannina L. Garces-Ambrossi Muncey, MD | Physician | October 25, 2018 There are medical honors so rare you don’t even know they exist. When you’re trudging through the slog of PBK/AOA/other — ultimately meaningless — letters, these seem to be [...]