Medical Bits 6.1 Your Health – Healthy Weight
Healthy Weight All humans face challenges, opportunities, risks and uncertainties, as we all strive… read more
Medical Bits 5-4 IBS
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Welcome to our Medical Bits! Today, we will delve into Irritable Bowel… read more
Medical Bits 5-3 Alcohol and Disease
Alcohol-Associated Disease Globally, excess consumption of alcohol is the most prevalent of all… read more
Medical Bits 5-2 Travel Medicine and Vector-Borne Diseases
Travel Medicine International and domestic travel has become routine. It is estimated that in 2019,… read more
Medical Bits 5-1 Menopause-Andropause
Medical News We are well aware of many of the challenges, opportunities, risks, and uncertainties… read more
Medical Bits 4-4 Depression I-II
Dr Picone Blog Q4 2022 Medical Bits 4-4 Depression I - II
Medical Bits 4-3 Depression and Emerging Infections
Dr. Picone Q4 2022 Blog Post Medical Bits 4-3 Depression and Emerging Infections
Medical Bits – Vol. 4.2: Your Health and Medical News
Medical News: “Endemic” COVID As you all know, COVID cases are again on the rise everywhere. A… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 4.1: Your Health and Medical News
Medical News: The End of the Pandemic? The first Pandemic of the XXI century may be dwindling and… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 3.7: Your Health and Medical News
Professional Burnout Personal reflections This past week, I celebrated my 32nd Medical School… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 3.6: Your Health and Medical News
Osteoarthritis Most of you know the features of osteoarthritis (OA), (also known as degenerative… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 3.5: Your Health and Medical News
Hearing Loss At the outset of the pandemic, I developed an upper respiratory tract infection with… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 3.4: Your Health and Medical News
Preventive Care. We have discussed how the SARS-CoV2 Pandemic has altered so many aspects of life… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 3.3: Your Health and Medical News
Pandemic News We have reviewed the origins of the novel coronavirus responsible for the pandemic on… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 3.2: Your Health and Medical News
Pandemic Update – Vaccination Progress Despite our curiosity and yearning to answer many other… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 3.1: Your Health and Medical News
Vaccine Update SARS-CoV2 Vaccine Deployment – “The Magic Has Started” Many of you wonder… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 2.9: Your Health and Medical News
Your Metabolism As you know, multicellular organisms (just like communities and Nations) require… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 2.8: Your Health and Medical News
Our Brain Our brain is the central organ of our Central Nervous System and it is connected to the… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 2.7: Your Health and Medical News
Our Immune System As most of you know, our immune system is necessarily complex and without… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 2.6: Your Health and Medical News
Much has happened since the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic. For most Homo Sapiens toiling about… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 2.4: Your Health and Medical News
You probably don’t need more information about the roaring Pandemic. Over the past several… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 2.3: Your Health and Medical News
In our three last newsletters, we discussed the outbreak of the beta-coronavirus infection,… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 2.2: Your Health and Medical News
In previous newsletters, we discussed the outbreak of the betacoronavirus infection now labeled… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 2.1: Your Health and Medical News – Viruses and the Crown
As we have briefly discussed in this segment in the past, all molecules and all creatures have a… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 1.8: Your Health – Viruses and You
Why should you continue reading the next few pages? Because you will likely develop at least a… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 1.7: Your Health – Your Lungs
We don’t need to emphasize the importance of breathing. One of the true wonders of complex life… read more
Medical Bits – Vol 1.6: Your Health – Sleep
Why do humans, mammals, and most other living creatures need to sleep? Why do we become irritable… read more
Medical Bits – Vol 1.5: Your Health – Travel
International and domestic travel has become routine. It is estimated that in 2015, more than 1.2… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 1.4: Your Health – A Healthy Diet
As you all know, access to clean drinking water, eradication of food-borne diseases, vaccinations,… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 1.3: Improving Communication – Complementary and Alternative Medicine
It is no secret that plants have been used for medicinal purposes for millennia. All civilizations… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 1.2: Improving Communication
I was very glad to see a warm reception to our initial communication last month. Some of you… read more
Medical Bits – Vol. 1.1: Staying In Touch
Physicians strive to improve communication with patients and often worry that the limited time… read more
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