Heart Health Blog

It’s been 20 years since I led a study evaluating gender disparities at leading medical institutions in the U.S. and Canada. Our research was among the first to...

In celebration of the Juneteenth holiday, I would like to pay homage to Dr. Elijah Saunders, a world renowned cardiologist who was one of my heroes and a hero t...

Over the past month, hospitalization rates have fallen in many part of the U.S., including the State of Maryland (my home). Yet while infection rates remain hig...

Earlier this week, the prominent and influential Italian physician Dr. Matteo Bassetti was criticized by the World Health Organization (WHO) for suggesting that...

With summer approaching and the United States (and many other countries) in various stages of reopening, there has been growing concern that COVID-19 infection ...

How did a world class epidemiologist who studied Ebola, SARS and COVID-19 with a wealth of knowledge on viral safety precautions become very ill from COVID-19? ...

A lot has been written about what we can do to protect ourselves against COVID-19.  They include social distancing (minimum of 6 feet apart), face masks (to be ...

While common symptoms of COVID-19 include fatigue, fever, dry cough and muscle aches newer signs and symptoms of the novel coronavirus have become increasingly ...

As shown by gas clouds that form after a sneeze, or after a cough, viral particles in the millions can be inhaled if you happen to be in its direct path and are...

Because COVID-19 is a new strain of virus that has not been experienced before,  the body’s defense system (immune response) has in many cases, been caught off-...

The most physically ill I have ever been in my life occurred as a young lad when I was struck with the Hong Kong (HK) flu.   The HK pandemic that overtook more ...

Gol-gav-zaban (Borage) is an herb native to Iran and Eastern Mediterranean region and cultivated in other  The dried purple flowers are brewed in the same manne...