Zika virus has recently been overshadowed by COVID-19, but it was the virus many people had their eye on before the pandemic. The virus, which is spread via mosquito bites, has been described as causing symptoms that are reminiscent of - but milder than - those that occur with dengue fever. Like dengue fever, Zika virus is classified as a … [Read more...]
The role that children play in the spread of COVID-19 remains unclear. While it is largely consensus amongst the medical community that children are unlikely to become severely ill after infection with the virus, their infection rates and their likelihood of transmitting the virus to others is still not well understood. As schools slowly reopen, … [Read more...]
The rising use of e-cigarettes, which have been available since 1990, is causing concern amongst many physicians and healthcare professionals. Given that the 6% of Americans that use e-cigarette includes 3 million high school-aged children, parents also worry about the implications of e-cigarette use, such as the long-term consequences of using … [Read more...]
When the SARS-CoV-2 virus began spreading, and COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, much of the physician services healthcare community was focused on diagnostic test availability so that we could identify those who had been infected with the virus and use that information to slow the spread of the disease. Now, however, attention has shifted from … [Read more...]
There has been a lot of confusion in recent weeks about how ibuprofen may increase risks for contracting the novel coronavirus or impact the severity of the illness resulting from COVID-19 infection. Questions began after the publication of a paper in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine that pointed to the possibility that ibuprofen can increase … [Read more...]
