Another use for your smartphone! Check your alcohol level through a miniature (25 x 12 x 12 millimeters) attachment on your smartphone using an app. Using a paper strip that can measure quantitatively alcohol level  and store it into your smartphone App. The test...

Odds for return of a stopped heart to normal function is abyss able. Yearly approx. 525,000 cardiac arrests occur with nine of 10 happening outside of hospitals. research has shown 3-4 fold survival if quick action and teamwork comes into play. A heart has stopped and...

We all have friends who only order salad no matter what else is available. Many think they are eating healthily. Protein should be both from plants as well as from non-plants - meat/fish. At least 10% of your daily calories, but not more than 35%, should come from...

Plenty of new alternatives exist for immediate episodic medical care from a 'Doc-in-a-box' to pharmacy chain walk in 'clinics'-aka Minute Clinic? (CVS).Those seeking quick episodic care may suffer from a few realities including: antibiotics will likely be...

Compared to other US workers, physicians (MDs/DOs) have higher 'burnout' rates. One in three physicians across all medical specialties (Critical Care and Emergency Medicine over 50%) have burn out! No surprise Dr. Drummond (family physician - www.TheHappyMD.com)...

'When life gives you lemons...', we all have heard this proverb but what good things can lemons do?Abundant citric acid is found in lemons but it is also made by our bodies as we convert nutrients to energy thru chemical reactions. While lemon juice has no nutritional...

Eight million people worldwide die each year from cancer. Early diagnosis and better care monitoring can make a difference. On the frontier is fast sequencing DNA machines and liquid biopsies. Rather than cut tissue out (biopsy) to make a diagnosis of cancer,...