Articles about Primary Care
Let’s face it – life is hard. It’s a never-ending cycle of working, taking care of family and trying to make our communities a better place. But what about taking care of ourselves? People often overlook the basics and wind up battling illness and disease that could have been avoided. Once considered alternative, lifestyle medicine […]
Health care discussions can be hard to swallow nowadays – health care decisions perhaps even more so. While many Americans find themselves between a hospital and a hard place, weighing the risks of not seeking care after an injury, even those who feel they can freely call their doctor might wonder: Is this worth it? […]
If you’ve never experienced the debilitating pain of a migraine headache, consider yourself blessed. “In high school, I would literally bang my head on the floor to try and stop the pain. I know that sounds nuts,” admitted Lisa Berezny, who has suffered with migraines for more than 30 years. Now in her 50s, her […]
Every year, the flu epidemic marches on as winter approaches. And every year, Americans have an opportunity to arm themselves with the most effective weapon available: the flu vaccine. Dr. Kumar Dharmarajan, chief scientific officer for Clover Health, said that the severity of a flu season cannot be predicted but that one of the surefire […]
For many people, tracing lineage is a continuing mystery; every root that is uncovered leads to more branches deep down – the more you dig, the more you find. In decades past, the search often required countless hours at libraries, a knack for reading and interpreting documents and a keen ability to connect dots across […]
Attempting to quantify the most common medical disorders in the Palmetto State brings to mind the tale arising from the ancient Indian subcontinent of the blind men describing a strange animal – an elephant. One, who touched only the trunk, thought it was much like a snake; another, feeling the tail, thought it resembled a […]