What’s the best thing to do when a healthy-appearing child who is 3 to 36 months old has a fever of 102.2 or higher, with no clear source of the fever? Is it best just to treat them all with antibiotics, to be safe? Or to do blood tests on all of them, and just [...]

Our dear friend, our brother, our hero, the inimitable Doc Tom, died on Good Friday. Even though his untimely death came as a shock, Tom Ferguson had already far outlived the projections at the time of his Myeloma diagnosis over 15 years ago.
Thomas Jefferson taught, .Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with [...]

The CDC issued a notice on April 11, 2006 about 9 different commercial air flights in the US occurring in late March and early April where infected passengers may have been contagious, passing mumps to fellow travelers who might not have developed symptoms yet. It’s a vivid reminder that our increasing connectedness can allow infections to [...]

Cancer is very scary for most people. Just the word .cancer. makes us uncomfortable. Recently I met a mom who was just finishing treatment for cancer. It was her second diagnosis of cancer. The two were unrelated. She went on to share that cancer wasn’t the hardest thing she’d gone through - not the first [...]