Dr. Paul Wright is senior vice president and system chair of the Neuroscience Institute at Nuvance Health. He is a board-certified neurologist with over two decades of experience and subspecialty training in cerebrovascular disease such as stroke. Dr. Wright has extensive research experience including studying the effectiveness of novel therapies such as electroceuticals to treat …
Medical malpractice lawsuits are a relatively common occurrence in the United States. But the outcome is not usually in favor of the patient. Why? The legal system is designed to encourage extensive discovery and negotiations between adversarial parties with the goal of resolving the dispute without going to jury trial. Gary Stern, a medical malpractice …
Gastroenterologist Abhijeet Waghray, MD talks with Mark Alyn about stomach issues. Tummy problems could be serious and Dr. Waghray explains during this conversation. Gastroenterology is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. Diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract, which include the organs from mouth into anus, along the alimentary canal, are …
Mark Ratner, MD, who describes himself as a “prisoner of Prilosec,” says it wasn’t until he landed in an emergency room with an irregular heart rhythm that he began to realize the serious side effects from popular medications that Americans use every day. After several tests were run, the only abnormality found in his bloodwork …
In Dr. Steven Eisenberg’s oncology practice, the enemy is cancer, but it’s also denial, anger, and fear–draining emotions that can interfere with the effectiveness of treatment. Every day, Dr. Steven helps patients fight cancer using both time-tested conventional therapies and innovative medical technologies. At the same time, he helps them overcome negative emotions by cultivating …
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month, which provides a critically important reminder that each year 60,000 people are newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and more than one million Americans are currently living with the neurodegenerative disease. That’s why the non-profit Parkinson’s Foundation is working to make life better for people with Parkinson’s disease by improving care and advancing …
NeedyMeds is a 501(c)(3) national non-profit that connects people to programs that will help them afford their medications and other healthcare costs. Mission Statement: NeedyMeds educates and empowers those seeking affordable healthcare. Vision Statement: Our vision is affordable healthcare for all. How we do it: NeedyMeds, a national non-profit, achieves its mission by providing information …
A new paper by Steven Quay, M.D., PhD., CEO of Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATOS), entitled, “A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory-derived.” The 193-page paper can be downloaded from Zenodo, a general-purpose open-access repository operated by CERN, here: https://zenodo.org/record/4477081# . The purpose of …
Everything you wanted to know about human plumbing but were afraid to ask! This is a great book for anyone interested in knowing the basics of how everything “down there” works and that there are medical answers to most urological problems. As author Madeline Zech Ruiz says, “If you own a vagina or a penis, …
Expert Atlanta Facial Plastic Surgeon Dr. Benjamin Stong is seeing increasing numbers of patients who are getting substandard outcomes from non-board-certified practitioners. Dr. Stong wants to help patients undertake the necessary and often common-sense due diligence necessary when considering and selecting a physician. “This is a big problem that people considering plastic and cosmetic procedures …