May 25, 2016 | Annapolis Primary Care, Blog, urgent care
Public pools are opening in 1 week but swimmers beware! The headlines have blared: “CDC RELEASES ANNUAL POOP IN THE POOL REPORT AND IT’S GROSS: 80 PERCENT INSPECTED HAD A VIOLATION” (this one from Newsweek). Read more to find out what you need to know...
May 12, 2016 | Annapolis Primary Care, Annapolis Urgent Care, Blog
Dirty Dozen: Foods with the Most Pesticides In follow up to this week’s JAMA article linking pesticides to ALS, Evolve Medical highlights the 2016 “Dirty Dozen” list of foods with the most pesticides. Every year, the Environmental Working Group...
May 12, 2016 | Annapolis Primary Care, Annapolis Urgent Care, Blog
In a new report published in JAMA, pesticides have been linked to ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). ALS, many readers will recall, is the fatal neurological disease which spawned the “Ice Bucket Challenge” Facebook event a few years back....
May 4, 2016 | Annapolis Primary Care, Blog, direct primary care
Medical Mistakes are the 3rd Leading Cause of Death Medical mistakes are the 3rd leading cause of death in the US killing between 250,000 to 440,000 people per year, placing it only behind heart disease and all cancers as a cause of death. According to this latest...
Apr 11, 2016 | Annapolis Urgent Care, Blog, Uncategorized
Zika: Maryland Urgent Care Update Zika has infected hundreds of thousands of people in 60 countries and is expected to infect 3-4 million people within a year. Zika virus “is scarier than we initially thought,” Dr. Anne Schuchat of the CDC told reporters...