Category: Infectious disease

Unveiling the truth: How headlines shape our world and the urgent need for reliable news

This is a story of headlines and the power they wield for good and evil (apologies for the melodrama). Words matter, and I, for one, am frustrated with the words in headlines often doing more harm than good. I am a family doctor whose passion in life i…

From business trip to battling a rare breast disease: my journey of survival, advocacy, and remission

I never envisioned a business trip could result in a diagnosis of a rare, under-practiced, poorly understood, and emerging chronic inflammatory breast disease affecting 2.4 women per 100,000 and growing. Two months after my return from that business tr…

COVID-19: Unveiling the transformative shifts in health care [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us as we chat with medical writer Steven Marshall about the evolving health care landscape during the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss the transformative effects on health care delivery, …

Unveiling the global pandemic threat: insights into risk factors and urgent measures for prevention

As the current COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the globe, many are left wondering when the next pandemic will occur. The reality is that pandemics are not a new phenomenon, and throughout history, we have seen numerous instances of infectiou…

The importance of listening in health care: a mother’s journey advocating for children with chronic Lyme disease

My husband, a physician, and I have four wonderful children – a son and three daughters. I look back over the past decade and wonder, “Why?” Why did my daughters contract Lyme disease and not my son or husband? Why was it so difficult to es…

The surprising medical mystery of a “good” Hitler: How a rescued kitten revealed a rare movement disorder

An excerpt from Fifty Shades of Gray Matter. He was Hitler. Not the evil Nazi dictator returned somehow from the Inferno to which he had been consigned. Apparently, as with the witches in Oz, there were both good and bad Hitlers. He informed me that he…

How chronic illness and disability are portrayed in media and the importance of daily choices for improved quality of life

An excerpt from Long Illness: A Practical Guide to Surviving, Healing, and Thriving. Copyright ©2023. Available from Hachette Go, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Let’s say that you have it all together: you are accepting your illness and …

Uncovering the medical mystery behind Lazarus’ resurrection [PODCAST]

Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! In this episode, we delve into the story of Lazarus, a man who died and was raised from the dead by Jesus Christ. Our guest is William Lynes, a urologist who takes a clinical approach to th…

Surviving monkeypox: a story of compassionate care and an emerging disease outbreak

Mr. Sanchez had been feeling unwell for days before he decided to visit the emergency room. When I walked into his room, I immediately noticed that he was scared and anxious. His sore throat had been persistent for five days and was now so severe that …

Lazarus: the dead man brought back to life

Lazarus is a man of the new testament, living in the time of Jesus Christ in the city of Bethany. He was the brother of two of Christ’s followers, sisters Mary and Martha. Bethany sat less than 2 miles south of Jerusalem in Israel. The story of L…