Chesapeake Bay Seafood: What Is Safe to Eat? How many meals of crab or rockfish is it safe to eat? What about oysters? Mercury, PCBs and pesticides limit the number of meals per month of certain types of Chesapeake Bay seafood. For instance, did you know that...
Surprise! That Urgent Care Center May Send You A Big Bill “Do you take my health insurance?” This is the first question people have when calling an urgent care. Despite a ‘Yes’, people are receiving huge bills–sometimes hundreds or...
Heath exhaustion and other heat-related illnesses are rising as temperatures in the Annapolis area continue to soar. Extreme heat causes more deaths than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, earthquakes and floods combined! What are the symptoms of heat stroke? What can...
New Cholesterol Guidelines: An Annapolis Primary Care Spotlight An important JAMA article published Tuesday supports the AHA/ACC 2013 guidelines which dramatically shifted the target from “LDL” to “Risk”, as to who should be on a statin (such...
NSAIDs Increase Risk of Heart Attacks On Thursday, the FDA announced stricter warnings on NSAIDs, including Motrin (Ibuprofen) and Aleve (Naproxen) as a result of a new study demonstrating increased risk for heart attacks and stroke. In this Annapolis Primary Care...
