The CDC has sent out an emergency advisory to doctors this week warning that 2 factors have set up the 2015 flu season to be more miserable and potentially more deadly than in years past. First, the dominant strain of influenza virus in circulation is H3N2 and...
Each year, Thanksgiving brings feasts–and questions about food safety. Evolve Medical is happy to provide answers to questions such as, “Does turkey make you want want to sleep?” and “For how long after Thanksgiving can I still eat...
Quit smoking today and you may stop a heart attack tomorrow! One of the major risks for smoking is a heart attack–and your risk for a heart attack drops within 24 hours of quitting smoking! Smoking causes 480,000 deaths every single year. To put this in relative...
The United States is experiencing a record number of measles cases with 603 confirmed measles cases since January 2014 which is the highest number of cases since measles elimination was documented in the U.S. in 2000, as reported by the CDC. According to the WHO...
A new, important study out of Harvard Medical School this week shows that if you want to avoid a heart attack, you should be lowering your cholesterol even further than what has previously been recommended. Specifically, the study showed that an LDL of 53 was...
