How to live until you are one hundred years old

The Emergency Department is garage sale of stories. Endless treasures of people and their lives that just unfold, like a dusty box sitting in the back corner of a shelf. A 66-year-old Caucasian woman presented in the Emergency Department for increasing blood pressure. This is how every chart begins. It is so boring. Medicine is […]

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Should I take Probiotics?

Probiotics are everywhere.  People in the pharmacy and my former students would ask me all the time if they should be taking these. Hopefully my breakdown below helps to make a more informed decision. There is a plethora of information about probiotics. Here is some basic background, so everyone is on the same page. Here […]

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