I’m so proud to announce that Stephanie Kula, who has worked with me for over 10 years now, is newly-licensed in Five Element Acupuncture. Stephanie joins me in her commitment to this powerful treatment, which places special emphasis on the five elements – Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water – as unique aspects of our [...]

The New York Times ran a piece yesterday about something that’s been talked about for years: can taking vitamins actually cause sleep problems? Of course, there’s no easy answer to this. Consider Vitamin B6, for example. On the one hand, B6 is widely thought to cause vivid dreaming; I often suspect B6 deficiency in patients who report [...]

I’m so pleased to announce that Dr. Sarika Arora will be joining our practice at The Rothfeld Center.  Having completed her residency in Internal Medicine at SUNY Buffalo, Dr. Arora has been a hospitalist since 2007, and is currently an active member of the Institute of Functional Medicine. She’s been training with me for several months now, and [...]

When it comes to flu season, we are all about safety and prevention at The Rothfeld Center. This year we are once again offering our homeopathic flu pellets and flu injection to our patients and their families. Each year, these pellets and homeopathic injections are formulated from the same flu strain as the FDA’s flu [...]

Katy Driscoll, who manages our Rothfeld Apothecary, has dragged me into the 21st Century and designed a wonderful facebook page for us. She’s posted all kinds of helpful material and links up there, and is running a promotion for the month of July. Anyone who likes our facebook page by July 30 will get 10% [...]

Like my colleagues all over the world, I was trained to never stop advocating for my patients, and to exhaust every option when it came to their health and survival. Yet as these options proliferate, are we physicians and caregivers taking our efforts too far, and unintentionally harming our terminally-ill patients in the process? That’s [...]

As the population lives longer, bone fractures become more important. Even microfractures in the spine from collapsed vertebrae can cause pain and disability, while hip fractures can be life-threatening to an older person. On the positive side, people have become more tuned into their calcium intake as a result; but the focus on bone fracture [...]

I’m very pleased to share some wonderful news with you. Beth Galan, who has been the nurse in our practice for several years, is now our Nurse Practitioner. Beth has been in the field of Integrative Medicine for over 35 years, and has worked with some of its leading physicians. She is available to treat a range of conditions [...]

At least half of my patients deal with chronic illness on a daily basis, and it can be profoundly discouraging and debilitating. There are some simple steps I share with them that can greatly help the body’s ability to fight chronic disease and grow stronger, not weaker, in the process:
Massage:  Body massage not only feels [...]

As many of you are aware, there was a catastrophic water main break on Saturday that is currently affecting dozens of communities in Eastern Massachusetts, For those of you living in a restricted water zone I want to offer my advice as to safe water-use procedures.
First, make sure to consult the MWRA website regularly, as [...]