By Dr. Anthony Policastro September 18 is the birthday of the Air Force. The Army Air Corps became the United States Air Force on September 18, 1947. I decided that in order to honor that, I would recount [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro A lot of people know that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be having a bigger impact in the future. What many of them fail to realize is the impact that it already has. My daughter [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro A few months ago, I wrote an article on misinformation and disinformation on social media. The definition of misinformation is false and inaccurate information. People spreading it believe they are correct. Disinformation is intentionally [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro There have been several headlines in the last few weeks about lithium possibly being beneficial for treating Alzheimer’s Disease. As is often the case, there is more behind the headlines than it would first [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro The word for this week is actigraphy. Actigraphy uses a device with a movement sensor in it. The sensor looks at body movements. It then puts this data into a computer. The computer can [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro Recently, my grandson texted me to tell me that his wife was having some breathing issues. They did not sound too bad but I told him to check her pulse oxygen anyway. He texted [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro Recently Dr. Ben Carson paid a visit to Seaford. One of the things he pointed out was that when he went to school there were no such things as ADHD and Autism. That is [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro From 1997 until 2024, the annual total number of measles cases exceeded 300 only 3 times. This year as of July 15th the total number of cases stood at 1,267. Perhaps it is time [...]

Several years ago I wrote an article about a process problem that we had at Langley AFB. Our bottles of saline and potassium hydroxide looked identical. On two separate occasions, nurses accidentally washed out a patient’s eye with potassium hydroxide [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro Several years ago, I wrote an article about a process problem that we had at Langley AFB. Our bottles of saline and potassium hydroxide looked identical. On two separate occasions, nurses accidentally washed out [...]