By Dr. Anthony Policastro Artificial Intelligence (AI) is moving at breakneck speed. AI is already used in some areas of medicine. For example, AI can review a patient’s entire record quickly. It may pick up an obscure fact [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro I watch training videos on my treadmill. Recently one of the trainers was in Australia. He was passing by tea trees . He stopped to talk about tea tree oil. The Aborigines use it [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro Cancer screening takes many forms. Mammograms look for breast cancer. Pap smears are done for cervical cancer. Colonoscopy is done for colorectal cancers. I recently received an email from a reader in Georgetown. Her [...]

By Dr. Anthony Policastro People are well aware that table salt is a mixture of sodium and chloride. They are also well aware that table salt is associated with things like blood pressure. Blood pressure, in turn, is [...]

Sometimes medical studies provide surprising information. Sometimes they do not. An example of that was a study that was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association open network on January 28, 2025. The study looked at [...]

Emergencies are unexpected. That is why they have that name. The emergency evacuations in California are a good example. In our area, hurricanes likely represent the biggest danger. When people are asked to leave in a hurry, they [...]

I am a member of DE BEST (Behavioral and Emotional Support Team). It is a volunteer group. The goal is to provide mental health assistance when a group of individuals in the state experience an emotional tragedy. The [...]

People will often quote statistics to prove a point that they are trying to make. The problem with that is related to the fact that there are a lot of variables to any statistic. Without knowing those variables, [...]

Last month, the CEO of UnitedHealth was murdered in New York City. There was an associated outpouring of comments on social media related to that. Most of those comments suggest that there is a lack of knowledge about [...]

One of the things pediatricians talk about at well baby visits is nutrition. There are guidelines available that allow infants to grow in the healthiest manner. None of those guidelines indicate that the faster an infant begins baby [...]