Like many others in Massachusetts and elsewhere, I’m thinking of Teddy Kennedy this week.  As a physician, I admire his unwavering stance on our duty to provide good-quality healthcare to every American. As a long-time constituent, I am deeply grateful for the decades of service he offered our state.

But as I think about Teddy, I [...]

There’s nothing new about teenagers doing anything they can to stay up all night and get their work done (remember No-Doz?). What’s so worrisome now, though, are the reports surfacing about the huge surge in teen abuse of ADHD medications, with sometimes fatal results. Of course, lots of kids take prescription drugs just to get high, and [...]

There’s a promising new study suggesting that Chinese herbs are an effective treatment against endometriosis, a disease that threatens fertility and effects an estimated 5.5 million women in the US. This is exciting news, since women who suffer from endometriosis are generally given two treatment options – powerful medications with side-effects, or surgery. Most feel [...]

As an integrative medicine specialist, I tend to see a lot of patients who have spent years trying to figure out what’s making them sick. With certain conditions like thyroid imbalance, or chronic Lyme, there’s often no easy answer to diagnosis or treatment. And even clear-cut diagnoses like Multiple Sclerosis can’t offer patients a single answer when it comes to [...]

There continues to be a lot of misinformation out there about the availability of Armour Thyroid. Pharmacists are telling my office today that supplies are back-ordered 6 months, which is not accurate.
I called the Forest Pharmaceuticals hotline this morning to get the very latest information. The 120 mg, 240 mg, and 300 mg doses are [...]

The latest study on kids and Vitamin D is truly astonishing, claiming millions of children between the ages of 1 and 21 exhibit dangerously low levels, potentially increasing their risk of heart disease, bone problems, diabetes, and other illnesses. Of course, we all know kids have too many reasons to stay indoors (I would have [...]

The sun is peeking out this afternoon, but when I came to work this morning it looked like another drizzly, overcast, damp day. We’ve had a string of them – most of the last 6-7 weeks have been damp. And that makes me think of the impact damp weather, and dampness in general, has on [...]