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Position: La Plata Health Watch
It is becoming increasingly clear that a COVID-19 vaccine will not likely be widely available this year. Public health experts are also uniform in their guidance that a vaccine or vaccines for...
DATE: Oct. 23, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
There has been some recent discussion about routes of transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. While it has long been acknowledged that this coronavirus spreads through...
DATE: Sept. 27, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
In a normal year, around this time I begin preparing for influenza season by recommending vaccination. In a normal year, I reflect on the decades-long proven safety of the flu vaccine. In a normal...
DATE: Aug. 23, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
The novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, which is responsible for COVID-19 disease, causes a broad range of health effects. Because of the newness of the virus and the disease, medical science...
DATE: July 26, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
As a primary care physician, there is one thing lately that concerns me even more than COVID-19: important health issues that are being ignored because of COVID-19. High blood pressure, diabetes...
DATE: June 28, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
This month and especially this weekend were to have been a time for celebration for our graduates. To the class of 2020, congratulations on the accomplishment of completing your studies! As a...
DATE: May 24, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
We are all struggling with the new challenges of dealing with a coronavirus pandemic. Yet not all are equally impacted. With the focus on a viral infection, it is easy to lose sight of other...
DATE: April 26, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
If you are like me, you are being bombarded with information from every corner about the coronavirus, which is also referred to as COVID-19. I wanted to take the opportunity to summarize some...
DATE: March 29, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
A colleague once shared with me the observation that much of the health-related suffering humans experience originates between the ears. A complete understanding of the various factors influencing...
DATE: Feb. 23, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
It has been said that human beings are creatures of habit. Of course, this applies as equally to bad habits as to good ones. As it turns out, much of our health is dependent upon our habits, and...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2020 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
I was recently chatting with an older colleague about how I have had the benefit to work at a time and place where certain vaccine preventable illnesses are not commonplace. I’m a mid-career...
DATE: Dec. 29, 2019 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. So goes the beginning of Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Tale of Two Cities.” From the perspective of our health, much the same could be said of...
DATE: Nov. 30, 2019 | COLUMN: La Plata Health Watch
