How epidemics happen: first, a vulnerable population. Then bring into that population a highly contagious infection. Recently that's measles. Unvaccinated kids are often in clusters where not vaccinating is culturally popular-…
This week's guest columnist is Dr. Meighan Anderson, a Family Practice resident at the University Hospital and Clinics here in Lafayette. She's 10 years old. She has asthma and eczema, but hasn't seen her regular doctor in a year…
Asthma has been with us for millenia. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, inventor of the Hippocratic Oath, first used the term (from the Greek aazein, "to pant"). The Greeks had treatments- adding ephedra (an epinephrine-…
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