The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of government action to slow its spread and to mitigate its effects.

In 2019, more than 25 million people ordered home genetic tests to answer one of two questions: “Where did I come from?” or “What diseases am I more likely to acquire?” You can find out just by swabbing the inside of your cheek with a cotton-tipped applicator and sending it to a company that will analyze your cells.

Coronavirus and the influenza epidemic have highlighted the need to be smart about our exposure to respiratory viruses. Two public health organizations — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) — stand out as credible resources for the latest news about these epidemics.

November saw the passing of Robert C. Norris, one of several actors to portray the iconic Marlboro Man, at 90 years of age. While Norris was never a smoker, his rugged and masculine branding in cigarette advertising enticed many folks to smoke. Like much of the Old West, the habit of cigarette smoking has faded from a high of 45 percent of adults in 1965 to a much improved 14 percent in 2017.

Regenerative medicine and unlocking stem cell biology will open many doors toward treating patients with orthopedic problems (and hopefully, one day, help patients avoid invasive surgeries). Philanthropy is pivotal in helping fund some of the important projects that sometimes cannot be funded through the NIH or other sources.

In any group of people, asking about back pain will produce nods and frowns. About 80 percent of adults experience low back pain at some point in their life, and it’s the most common cause of job-related disability, a leading contributor to missed work days.

There are so many benefits to being a Legatus member. One that I consider a Godsend is Healthnetwork Foundation.

The healthcare crisis in America Today is twofold: ethical and economic.

It can be quite burdensome for a person with an overactive bladder or bladder-leakage problem to endure the diagnostic process. He has to come to the clinic, get undressed in an unnatural environment, empty the bladder, get a catheter, refill the bladder with room temp water, urinate...

You can control your risk of heart attack, the number-one killer of Americans, even if you were dealt a bad genetic hand with a family history of heart attacks, bypass surgery, or coronary stent placement.

What if we could tap into the body’s ability to regenerate bone to help cancer patients? It was a novel concept ... or so I thought.

Contemporary America’s main problem has been defined by many as “addiction”: addiction to technology, to pain medication, or to the freedom of non-commitment. But these are only symptoms of a deeper root-cause.

Believe, “skin cancer can’t happen to me. I won’t be one of the 10,000 Americans diagnosed daily with skin cancer.”

Healthnetwork has been a Godsend to our family. My first experience with Healthnetwork was over 10 years ago.

Modern medical technology often excels at providing diagnoses and treatment possibilities, but of itself, it doesn’t provide the necessary conversations when ailments prove incurable or refractory to treatment.

It’s 2019 – a New Year! A popular resolution made at this time of year is to “reduce the stress in my life.” The solution is not simple; stress or what is perceived as stressful varies from person to person

For the first time in history, non-infectious chronic diseases (cancer, heart disease, diabetes and dementia) have replaced infectious diseases in the majority of deaths worldwide.

Many people do not know that they have heart disease until they have a heart attack. A coronary calcium scan is one way to find out if you have early heart disease, but other risk factors must be evaluated along with the score to give you a truer assessment of your cardiac risk.

Time marches on and marijuana in the U.S. today is quite different than what was used by “flower children” of the past.