Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board The cough reflex is a defense mechanism essential to life… Coughing is a common, somewhat perplexing complaint with a variety of causes. It’s a symptom – not a disease. Coughing can be a reaction to “cold air” or it can make the clinician suspicious of cancer. It can
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Have you ever notice people in the theater or in some other venue lining up to rent a listening device to improve their hearing? Some are wearing hearing aids, others are not. What are these listening devices? Why do people with hearing aids need them? John, a 63
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Joseph R. Anticaglia MD Medical Advisory Board Individuals at times complain: “People mumble all the time. They don’t speak up.” Or they might say, “I can hear you, but I can’t get a grip on the words.” Adults can voice their disappointments but small children are dependent on alert parents and physicians to recognize their
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Natalie Geary MD Medical Advisory Board Some children will eat everything put in front of them, while others have a more selective palate. But what do you do when your child’s meals are so limited that they lack variety and color? You may have tried making things into cute and funny shapes and still these
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Natalie Geary MD Medical Advisory Board The American Academy of Pediatrics has doubled the recommended daily dose of vitamin D for children and teens up to 400 units per day, which is equivalent to drinking four cups of milk. Vitamin D has been receiving great press and has been fortified in milk since 1933 for
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Dr. Natalie W. Geary, MD Medical Advisory Board Carbohydrates have gotten a bad wrap lately. But, actually they are a necessary and important part of your child’s diet. There really is no solid evidence to support the value of low-carb diets, especially for growing children and young adults. In fact, selective restriction diets are harmful
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Dr. Natalie W. Geary, MD Medical Advisory Board As a pediatrician and a mom, the safety of the toys my patients and children play with is paramount! It is also an obvious source of concern in light of new information coming out each month about toxic exposures in children and their effect on toddler development.
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JOSEPH R. ANTICAGLIA MD Medical Advisory Board A sore throat can be more than a throat that hurts. It can vary from mild to severe, from viral to bacterial and the consequences range from insignificant to life changing. Testing for strep can make all the difference. The throat, or oral pharynx, is a passageway that
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JOSEPH R. ANTICAGLIA MD Medical Advisory Board Medical advances over the past several decades have been remarkable. In the mid 1980’s, a revolution changed the way surgeons treated sinus disease. At that time, it was common practice to cut the skin of the face or the tissue above the upper teeth to gain access to
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Rajiv Leventhal There has been a slight uptick in telemedicine adoption in 2015 among healthcare providers, according to an updated telemedicine study from HIMSS Analytics. The study, which provides new information from HIMSS Analytics 2014 research on telemedicine adoption, leveraged data from the HIMSS Analytics Database and a survey of healthcare IT leaders. The findings
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