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HEALTH

FOMO

By Dr. Anthony Policastro Anxiety can take many forms. One of them is called FOMO (fear of missing out). It refers to anxiety related to not finding out about information, events or experiences. People imagine that those things [...]

2025-06-19T11:01:12-05:00June 19, 2025|HEALTH|

Make America Healthy Again

By Dr. Anthony Policastro The new movement is to “Make America Healthy Again.” This is admirable. It is also near impossible.  Adults all know what their unhealthy habits are. If they wanted to change them they could do [...]

2025-06-12T11:27:46-05:00June 12, 2025|HEALTH|

STIs

By Dr. Anthony Policastro There are times when we pretend that no news is good news. That is not always the case. Parents rarely speak to their teenage children about sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The result is that [...]

2025-06-05T10:34:36-05:00June 5, 2025|HEALTH|

The Five C’s of Media Use

By Dr. Anthony Policastro Children develop along a specific pathway. They develop a social smile to show that they are thinking human beings and want to please their caretaker. They crawl before they walk. They use single words [...]

2025-05-29T09:12:55-05:00May 29, 2025|HEALTH|

EPCOT

By Dr. Anthony Policastro When I was Commanding Officer at Langley AFB Hospital, I had a visitor. He was a retired Air Force pilot. After his retirement he became Walt Disney’s personal pilot. I recently watched the story [...]

2025-05-22T11:19:45-05:00May 22, 2025|HEALTH|

Immunotherapy

By Dr. Anthony Policastro I recently turned on television news. They were presenting medical information. The big news was that immunotherapy for cancer was allowing patients to not need surgery or chemotherapy. Some patients were actually cured by [...]

2025-05-15T12:48:25-05:00May 15, 2025|HEALTH|

Over the Counter

By Dr. Anthony Policastro I have written in the past about over the counter medications that are useful to have in your home medicine cabinet. The names of those medications rarely change. However, their availability is often affected [...]

2025-05-08T09:08:24-05:00May 8, 2025|HEALTH|

Fluoride Levels

By Dr. Anthony Policastro Medications are useful when taken in the proper dose. However, when the dose gets too high, it can be damaging. A good example of that can be found during the current measles epidemic in [...]

2025-04-24T09:52:45-05:00April 24, 2025|HEALTH|

Cannabis and Driving

By Dr. Anthony Policastro We all acknowledge that bullying is bad. History tends to repeat itself. In the past there were many drivers who felt that they were fine to drink and drive. That resulted in thousands of [...]

2025-04-17T09:21:22-05:00April 17, 2025|HEALTH|
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