My Arlington practice hosted its second Lyme clinic of the summer last Friday, with a steady hum of new patients who’ve been treated for Lyme but aren’t better, or who’ve been told they don’t have Lyme but think they might have it, or who feel the classic symptoms but never had a rash. With all that’s [...]

 
I’ve never disliked anything Michael J. Fox has been in, from Family Ties to his recent run on Rescue Me. (All right, Spin City could be a bit lame.)   And of course, we share an illness.  But I developed a new respect for him after attending a roundtable discussion last night on Parkinson’s Disease Research hosted [...]

Some recent online articles about the herbal supplement industry have had people asking my advice about safety concerns. The FDA is still not regulating supplement production, choosing instead to leave quality control in the hands of the manufacturers. There’s a lot of tainted and mislabeled product out there, and too many unsuspecting people are spending [...]

This morning NPR had a feature on Celiac Disease. For those of you who may not be aware, Celiac involves severe gluten intolerance (gluten is the main protein in wheat, oats, rye and barley), and affects nearly 3 million Americans. But for every person who actually has Celiac, there are ten people who are [...]

It’s official – the World Health Organization has designated the Swine Flu a pandemic, with over 30,000 cases reported worldwide. Health care experts believe the numbers of cases more likely number in the hundreds of thousands, with the CDC designating New England as an area that’s especially hard-hit.So how does this change things for those [...]