Christmas Medical Issues
By Dr. Anthony Policastro The Christmas Season is one filled with a great deal of joy and happiness. We need to take care to keep it that way. Prevention in the first place is better than having to [...]
Food likes
By Dr. Anthony Policastro Food likes and dislikes vary by individual. There was an old commercial that went: “Everybody doesn’t like some things, but nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee.” It is not likely that the commercial was 100 [...]
Thanksgiving Calories
By Dr. Anthony Policastro Most people are not familiar with the Federal Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). It was a computerized system founded in 1990 to track potential adverse reactions to vaccines. The goal was to look [...]
Thanksgiving Calories
By Dr. Anthony Policastro Thanksgiving Day is a time to celebrate with family and a big meal. Unfortunately, the average typical Thanksgiving dinner has over 2000 calories. For most people that is a full day supply of calories [...]
Social Catergorization
By Dr. Anthony Policastro Sometimes we do not realize the tricks our brains play on us. We are constantly bombarded by information. The advent of social media has made that bombardment even more so than what we had [...]
Food Insecurity
By Dr. Anthony Policastro Given the concerns about the SNAP program as of Nov. 1, I felt this article was worth publishing again. Hopefully, by the time this article is published, we will have already taken the appropriate [...]
Get Proper screenings
By Dr. Anthony Policastro We have all gone through episodes of “shoulda, woulda, coulda”. It is usually when we reflect on a missed opportunity. In most cases, those types of decisions cause an inconvenience. Sometimes they cause a [...]
Medical Decisions
By Dr. Anthony Policastro [Foreword: With the current interest in the causes of autism, I thought it might be a good idea to republish an article that I wrote earlier this year.] Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has increased [...]
Medical Decisions
By Dr. Anthony Policastro In the Bible, Proverbs 17 Verse 28 says: “Evan a fool who keeps silent is considered wise.” In 1907, Maurice Switzer updated that to read: “It is better to remain silent and be thought [...]
Medicaid Nursing Home Funding
By Dr. Anthony Policastro Medicaid has differing areas that it covers. A lot of attention goes to low income Medicaid users. We sometimes forget that almost 20 percent (one-fifth) of all Medicaid dollars go to pay for nursing [...]
