Harm Reduction

As a physician, it is pretty common to get unsolicited curbside consults in any and all locations - albeit on a plane, train, car, via text message, on a beach, street corner, even in a public restroom. Can you just look at this rash?

At one time, he was singularly honored to have his name attached to a groundbreaking, liberating and career-extending surgery.

Smoking can be thought of as a pediatric disease.

There's something going on in the San Diego area – and it centers around a whole lot more people lowering their risk for a heart attack.

Smoking is a pediatric disease, people who get hooked as kids are going to end up as chronic smokers, and that is why the American Council on Science and Health was the first to note it is a pediatric disease and target efforts at putting a halt t

The rate of Caesarian sections (C-Section) continues to increase globally despite efforts to standardize their use through education and guidelines.

Non-communicable diseases are often associated with our behavior; tobacco remains the poster child and efforts at reduction in its use has provided lessons on how to affect similar change for other health concerns.

Sometimes a remedy to a catastrophic health emergency is so simple, so straightforward, that it's truly mind-boggling when that precaution is not being implemented.

In a story that speaks for itself, King Bio has issued a voluntary nationwide recall out of “an abundance of caution” of thirty-two kids and infant products that could be contaminated

Two articles in the last few weeks caught my eye, the first, once again looking at predicting disease based on our genes, the modern-day equivalent to reading animal bones; the second a cautionary analysis of how labels frame our medical conversat