Remember many years ago noticing that an inordinate number of women coming to me for cosmetic or reconstructive surgery were on some medication for anxiety, depression or both. Valium, [...]

Healthy Living Magazine was last published in January 2020. The Covid tsunami hit one month later. My office was essentially closed for six weeks. Three years later, the world [...]

Don’t let sun get under your skin.  Let’s face it, if you vacation or live in Florida, you are going to be out in the sun. Sunshine, after [...]

The doctor cannot see you now. My wife’s primary care provider (PCP) recently retired. In March, she was having some issues and tried to get in to see [...]

COVID-19 fatigue is real. No, I don’t mean the profound fatigue when you are acutely ill with COVID, or even the lingering fatigue that can persist for weeks or months [...]

“Trust is the most important determinant of whether we survive the next century.” Attributed to Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize-winning economist One can argue what was the most damaging [...]

Is it better to use anti-bacterial soap? This is a question that never seems to stay answered.  The idea that anti-bacterial soaps are somehow better than regular soap is based [...]

In February/March 2022, frontline physicians faced with a crush of sick patients with a novel virus of unknown lethality from Wuhan, China scrambled to find ways to treat them. [...]

Exercise benefits a body whether you’re 19 or 99 "It’s never too late” is a common cliché, but it isn’t quite true. Especially when it comes to exercise.  [...]

New Year’s resolutions are a tradition. So is breaking them. Here are some suggestions on your way to a healthier you in 2022.  1. List the changes you [...]

I wrote what follows in April 2020, five weeks into the lockdowns.  Only the parts in italics were written now. I see a world I no longer [...]

The best biopsy for melanoma Save your skin and possibly your life.  Skin cancers are the most common cancers, and even though only about 1% of skin [...]

The truth about COVID-19 and where we go from here. Trying to make sense of COVID-19 can be frustrating because it is a moving target. The COVID of [...]

That is the question: Is it really the healthiest meal of the day? It is always difficult when a longheld or cherished belief must be called into question or, worse, [...]

Intermittent fasting is not a panacea but may work for you. People are not machines. We are complex and each of us unique in many ways. Even so, there are [...]