Distinguishing Ebola cases from others is the most immediate need for health care providers and patients.  If you cannot determine immediately who is infected, patients with other conditions will be lumped with possible Ebola patients, and may contract Ebola as a result of healthcare! Even worse (from the point of view of medical providers) is…

If you were ever my patient and asked about artificial sweeteners, you would have gotten an earful. There is so much available data on the problems with them.   And the study referenced here suggests artificial sweeteners actually cause the problem that are supposed to be helping to prevent or ameliorate:  glucose intolerance. From today’s…

Where can you find hundreds of doctors who can leave their practices and deploy to Africa?  In Cuba, where they have deployed large numbers of doctors to Africa many times before.   Cuba has a higher doctor-patient ratio than the US. Cuba uses American medical textbooks to train its doctors and has a very high…

IMHO, many cases and deaths have not been included in these numbers because they occurred in areas without the infrastructure to count them, or were hidden.  Still the rate of increase in cases is chilling and tells me we have likely lost the battle to contain this epidemic.  From the BBC:Cumulative deaths – up to…

I anticipate a huge loss of life from Ebola in Africa, due to the lack of medical and all other infrastructure in so much of the continent. Africans are like everyone else:  they want to save their family members.  If treatment centers are available that will increase the chance of survival, they will utilize them….