Did you get your flu vaccine this year? How about last year? For me it’s been a few years. As I’ve written before, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) must decide six months in advance which strains of influenza circulating in Asia are likely to hit North America the following winter. The flu vaccine is a cocktail of four different flu strains designed to combat the strains likely to infect Americans. Sometimes the CDC guesses right, and the United States experiences a mild flu season. In other years a strain that nobody expected somehow becomes dominant and spreads throughout the US and flu is widespread.
Author: Devon Herrick
Direct Primary Care and other Direct Pay Practice Models on the Rise
An article in the Denver Post claims that more of the city’s physicians are converting their practices to direct primary care (DPC).
Scientists May Have Developed a Brain Cancer Killer Vaccine
Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital are developing a cancer vaccine again the deadly brain cancer, glioblastoma.
Modern Medicine’s Messy Origins
When did the age of modern medicine begin? It’s hard to put your finger on but medical advancements did not occur all at once. Furthermore, what is meant by modern medicine? One fairly common definition that I would use is the point at which medicine stood a better chance of helping patients than harming them.