Mucus, Our Body’s Silent Defender
Mucus is something you don’t usually think about until you get sick. But it’s always there, trying to help you stay well.
Category: Medical Tips
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Is Motion Sickness Making Travel a Nightmare?
Here’s how to deal with it.
7 Ways You Could Burn This Summer, Other Than in the Sun
Wearing sunscreen is important, but it won’t protect you from these other dangers.
How to Stay Safe in Blazing Heat
The very high temperatures we’re having this week can be dangerous, but heat-related illness is preventable.
Think You Have the ‘Stomach Flu’?
It’s not actually the flu, but the misery is real. Here’s how to tell if it’s gastroenteritis.
Dealing with Flu: Stay Home or See a Doctor?
Most of the time, you can treat yourself with rest and fluids, but sometimes flu is a medical emergency.
What’s Treated at Urgent Care and What’s Not?
Physician’s log shows what conditions are treated at urgent care, and which patients have to be sent to the hospital.
Is Your Chest Pain a Sign of a Heart Attack, or Something Else?
Never assume chest pain is no big deal, but know that it could have many causes
Elder abuse under-identified in U.S. emergency departments
Elder abuse affects approximately 1 in 10 older adults in the United States and has far-reaching negative effects on physical and mental health.
5 Things You Need to Know About the Zika Virus
Though experts currently predict that the virus poses a small risk to people in the United States, it’s important to learn more about this mosquito-borne virus. [Read more...]
The Nature of Emergency Medicine
While searching for the purpose of rare plants in a remote South Pacific village, Timothy Platts-Mills, MD, took up the cause of medicine. Now, he’s training the next generation of ED doctors at UNC.
The Importance of Vitamin D
Vitamin D has increasingly become part of the blood work accompanying a physical at the doctor’s office. This may be for good reason, as many people are falling short on this important vitamin...- Guest blogger post by Jennifer Paschaloudis, MS, RD, LDN.