Revisiting Panel Size

One of the more interesting articles I wrote a couple of years ago was about panel size. No not THAT kind of panel – and not THAT one either! In this case panel size means the number of patients that a doctor in practice carries as their active patient load. If a doctor has say […]

Gluten Freedom

A couple of years ago I wrote a popular post about how much gluten is too much if you are gluten intolerant. Since that time, the amount of information about gluten intolerance has exploded and it is easy to find gluten free foods in stores as well as restaurants that specialize in handling gluten intolerant […]

Summer Tips

Summer’s great but has it’s own health hazards. I’ve written about some of the more common ones before, but here are the most important again as our Summer finally starts to settle in.

Mosquito abatement. June is a great time to patrol your home’s area, looking for sneaky mosquito breeding sites. Now’s the time to […]

Have a Vitamin D Appropriate Summer

Over the past three years on my blog and on SFGate I have written about vitamin D several times. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of how valuable and important it has been to our health all along and why it is important that we maintain the right level even if our modern […]

Don’t Get Rounded Up

With the news that Roundup has been shown to be toxic to human (and other mammal) placental cells in concentrations lower than those found in agricultural use, I thought I would look back quickly at an article I wrote about 2 years ago. The article is about using any weed killer or herbicide in general, […]

Spamming for Public Health

I have decided to spam for public health.

Phone calls, text messaging, and even apps have been shown to help improve health and sustain behavior change, even in people suffering from profound mental illness. But when it comes to using these tools for public health, there are two problems. The first is that each message […]