3 Questions Your Patients May Ask About the Flu Vaccine

3 Questions Your Patients May Ask About the Flu Vaccine

As we approach the colder months of the year, like December and January, flu season is soon to follow. Patients that fall victim to the flu will experince many symptoms varying from aches, sore throat, sneezing, and exhaustion. If the 2019 season is anything like last...
Detoxing: Facts or Fiction

Detoxing: Facts or Fiction

Detoxing is a well-known trend that people use to “cleanse” their bodies from “toxins”. Though many correlate this trend with weight-loss, that is usually not the main goal of these detoxes. But how effective are these detox diets? Are claims that celebrities make...
Patients Forced to Make Risky Choices Due to Rising Drug Costs

Patients Forced to Make Risky Choices Due to Rising Drug Costs

With the continuously rising cost of prescription drugs, patients are forced to take matters into their own hands. They are making choices that their doctors would advise against, and their health is suffering because of it.   Dr. Sameer Awsare, an internist and...
Democrats and Republicans Can Work Together to Fix Healthcare

Democrats and Republicans Can Work Together to Fix Healthcare

With such a great divide within our American Political Democracy, discourse among Republicans and Democrats have been nearly reduced to a state of nothingness. The gridlock in Washington is sourced by a mixture of ideologically driven politicians, and wealthy donors...
November News Updates from Micha Abeles

November News Updates from Micha Abeles

Updates on ACA Individual Mandate A new version of the House Republican tax bill does not include a repeal of the ACA individual mandate. The president has been a proponent of repealing the mandate as a way to dismantle the ACA and help pay for cuts in taxes, but a...