Vitamins may not be that helpful. That is the headline that comes from the most recent US Preventative Task Force’s Recommendation Statement published in JAMA on the evidence of benefit to harm of vitamin supplements. As is our wont, we should dig a little deeper… The vitamin industry is big. A Google search will yield…
Monkeypox is in the news. If it weren’t for the pandemic, it might not be as scary. Now we are primed to frightened of any spread of infectious disease, especially ones of which we are unfamiliar. Best thing is to familiarize. Monkeypox is a cousin to small pox coming from the same family, Poxviridae, a…
A stroke is a heart attack of the brain. Just like lack of blood flow to the heart causes muscle loss, chest pain, and arrhythmias, lack of blood flow to the brain causes weakness, slurred speech, and paralysis. This happens to 800,000 Americans a year and causes nearly 140,000 deaths. That is why May is…
There are just some things you can’t explain. The rising cases of acute hepatitis in kids is one of them. In the U.S. about 109 cases have been reported as of Friday May 6, 2022. The median age of the children is 2 and none over age 10. They’ve all tested negative for the routine…
Two of my favorite topics are the benefits of sleep and how to maintain a lower steady state weight. (Notice how I worded that–very technically accurate). So you can imagine my excitement when I ran across this study out of the University of Chicago and Wisconsin published in JAMA Internal Medicine. In a very well…
Everyone poops. I learned that from children’s books from when my kids were little. I’ve also earned a living learning that lesson (i.e I’m a gastroenterologist). Since COVID is shed in poop, one way to track population experience of the pandemic is by testing wastewater. In communities throughout the country, public and private enterprises have…
The Delta variant of the coronavirus got it’s start in India. Over a billion densely populated humans was good fodder for a SARS-CoV2 mutation that made it more transmissible. We should recall the dark days before vaccination when funeral pyres were burning 24/7 in the Subcontinent. Delta spread quickly and was soon the predominant strain…
MOLNUPIRAVIR–the new Merck drug Merck partnering with Ridgeback Pharma has asked for Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA for it’s oral drug, Molnupiravir (Moll new peer ah veer). If 8 pills a day are taken for 5 days in the early days of an active COVID infection, they claim a 50% reduced risk of hospitalization…
Dr. Kumar was recently featured on Fox 7 News Austin about his journey as an immigrant. You can watch the story here. As lawmakers face pressure to find solutions to U.S. immigration systems, a familiar face to Good Day Austin, shares his journey as an immigrant. Dr. Pradeep Kumar is a regular on Fox 7 Austin, his segment ‘Your…
I get to talk about something I love, coffee! If you haven’t noticed, any decent study about the benefits of coffee, I discuss. I promote. I make people aware. Coffee is awesome! But in some respects, what I am enamored with is the UK Biobank study that gives us this information, moreso than the information…
A crazy surge of COVID in India is overwhelming their health care system and wreaking havoc across the country. The previous peak of new cases during their summer surge was roughly 90,000 cases/day, now it’s over 300,000 cases/day and the numbers are only going to get worse before it gets any better. It is personally,…
First, Variants. Why do I feel like I’m on the set of Bladerunner? Cells mutate. They all do. Viruses, while not cells, mutate, too. Coronovirus mutates. When a mutation results in the virus behaving differently or looking differently, let’s call it a variant. There have been 3 variants described in the United States. The B.1.1.7…
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