As if life hasn’t been hard enough- now we have hurricane season to look forward to, and to kick it all off, Hurricane Isaias made its debut reminding us that the pandemic isn’t the only thing we have to worry about this year. According to Colorado State University, the 2020 hurricane season is happening earlier, and a greater number of …
Yes, it’s hard to believe but we’re reacting to the pandemic in really healthy ways and one of them is that as a country we are in our kitchen going at it. We’re cooking more than ever and it could, over time, make us healthier than ever. This is not to say that we also aren’t doing unhealthy activities like …
Hi everybody! This week we want to focus on a big positive – the huge surge in dog and other pet adoptions. We first saw reports of an increase in pet adoptions in late March as the first effects of early lockdown efforts started to be felt. By the end of that month almost half the US population was in …
Right now, even though we are longing to unplug, relax and enjoy these long summer days, it’s hard to avoid the explosion of COVID-19 throughout the country. America has always been a union of many states which vary wildly in their personalities and approaches to problems. Let’s just say that some of those differences are being highlighted in the current …
Reports initially coming out of Wuhan China, and now being confirmed globally, are showing that men face a greater risk of severe illness and death from Covid-19 than women. Go figure! Scientists are attributing androgens- male hormones such as testosterone as accelerating the virus’ ability to penetrate cells in the body. Interestingly, it’s men who are bald who tend to …
What are parents going to do this summer without summer camps? Not everyone sends their kids to camp but for many people, it has been a time-honored rite of passage and a formative part of their childhood–not to mention a sometimes much-needed break for parents. Camps began to send out the news in early May that the rumors were true. …
With all the discussion about relaxing the guidelines, thoughts have naturally been turning to post quarantine activities. Who among us hasn’t thought about what we would do when the social distancing rules are dropped? Let’s have some fun and let our imaginations run a little wild. Here’s what I will do when I can get out. And it isn’t that …
Seemingly overnight the roles I have played for most of my adult life have changed drastically – my role as a doctor and the role I have as a mother. I signed up for both, but they couldn’t be farther away from their original job requirements. Let’s start with the doctor side of the equation. I’m a practicing cardiologist during …
Today we are going to explore one of the really great things that is coming out of this whole crazy situation. Actually there are quite a few good pieces of news – testing is improving, people are recovering, the environment is getting a break, friends and family are staying in touch using video chat, lots of content is being made …
Well, here we are deep into month 2 of our lockdown, quarantine, enforced isolation or social distancing – whichever term makes you want to laugh or cry, less or more. And if anything is feeling the strain in our current situation it’s our relationships. Whether we think we have a lot of friends or family, a busy work schedule or …
