Culinary Medicine

Hepatitis C Vaccine Safe in First Human Trials

Major breakthrough- the first human trials of a hepatitis C vaccine prove safe and effective. Treatment for hepatitis C is costly – about 85,000 dollars – but a vaccine would drive the cost of treatment down.

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Shocking Report about Flu Vaccine: Get It

The Shocking Truth about flu vaccines is going around this year again (it came out in 2013). It is not shocking- it is not accurate. Here are the reasons you should get the flu vaccine- like I did, and my four year old son, and my wife.

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Why You Don’t Have to Kick Your Keurig To The Curb

If you like your Keurig you don’t have to kick it to the curb. Keep your coffee maker, it’s safe.

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Subsidize Big Corporations or Your Health Insurance?

The Supreme Court will decide if granting subsidies for people to purchase health insurance is constitutional. Going against that proposal is the GOP, and the Koch brothers who have received tens of millions of dollars in federal subsidies. Sorry- it is time for that nonsense to stop.

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Quarantine: History and Legal Use

Quarantine use is a well-established mechanism to prevent spread of contagious disease. In spite of the concern over how state officials have used quarantine, their use of it is grounded in the very beginning of the republic.

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NY Doctor with Ebola

A review of Dr. Mark Spencer, the physician diagnosed in New York City with Ebola. He is now free of Ebola, but the stigma of the disease continues to be a political hot potato.

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Ebola Airborne: It Can’t Happen

Ebola cannot become airborne – it is simply impossible so put that out of the sensationalized media. Here is how the virus infects you. Here is why it won’t become like the flu.

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Ebola Screening and Travel

As a physician who travels, the new Ebola screenings will be neither efficient nor cost effective. What will work better is to rapidly increase our response to set up treatment centers for Ebola in the countries affected.

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Sous Vide Cooking

Sous Vide cooking represents the easiest way to start cooking, and no worries about over cooking food. I started using this method of cooking in 2009 and quickly discovered that some of my patients, who could not tolerate over cooked meats.

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