F30A Journal — Inflammation

It is fitting that February is known as Heart Health Month. While most think of the heart in February as being the icon for Valentine’s Day, few really think about the health of their own physical heart.You have heard the statistics. Heart attacks and strokes are still leading killers of Americans, over cancer and other causes, yet many people do not even consider the notion that they may have heart disease. That is, until symptoms strike. I have been practicing medicine for almost 30 years now, and daily someone tells me they do not have any risk of a heart...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide in individuals under the age of 45. TBI affects approximately 1.7 million Americans each year with over 5.3 million Americans currently struggling with TBI disabilities. There are multiple causes from car accidents, falls, contact sport, to gunshot and stab wounds. TBI has been identified as the most common cause of epilepsy in adults. The effects can last a few days or the rest of a person’s life. Those effects include impairments related to thinking or memory, movement, sensation, vision and hearing along with emotional functioning...

Dear fellow provider:   Hopefully by now, all of us are on the same page with regards to the urgency and seriousness of this COVID-19 pandemic. Our patients are looking to us for guidance because of the conflicting reports in the media. Many of them already know someone with the illness or that has died from it.   Rather than debate any specifics about the virus itself, there is one thing we can all agree on. These are very anxiety producing times for our patients, both medically and economically. Patients that may not have historically exhibited anxiety, are experiencing it...

It is hard to believe that 44 years have passed since Robert Randall’s and his wife Alice O’Leary Randall’s landmark legal battle against the United States Government. Living in Washington D.C. in the ‘70s, Robert was diagnosed with glaucoma at the age of 25 and was told he could lose his vision completely in just 5 short years. He and Alice, a registered nurse, found that compounds in the cannabis sativa plant were able to relieve the ocular pressure he was experiencing. Unfortunately, the DEA classifies cannabis sativa as a schedule 1 controlled substance, and Robert was arrested for growing...