Tag: Glenn Ellis
Ellis: The Unwelcomed Guest: Holiday Heart Syndrome
By Glenn Ellis
From Thanksgiving through New Year's Day, emergency room visits and hospital admissions for acute illnesses tend to spike. While the holidays are...
Ellis: Beware of Salmonella in Turkey as Thanksgiving Nears
By Glenn Ellis
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting that outbreak strain of Salmonella Reading is present in live turkeys and in many...
Ellis: Beware of the Ancestry DNA Tests
By Glenn Ellis
Somewhere in America, there are millions of people who have paid to spit in a tube and have their genetic data analyzed...
Ellis: Racism, Stress and Health
By Glenn Ellis
It’s amazing how many people become uncomfortable as soon as the word racism comes up.
As writer, Nadra Kareem Nittle, concisely sums it...
Ellis: Urine Tests and Antibiotics in the Elderly
By Glenn Ellis
Regardless of how healthy you may be otherwise, the most common infection that affects seniors and the elderly are in the urinary...
Ellis: Thinking about getting a flu shot? Now’s the Time
By Glenn Ellis
As summer becomes a faint memory for most of us, winter is just around the corner. This year’s Farmer’s Almanac has a...
Ellis: Black Doctors Matter
By Glenn Ellis
I recently saw a statement on social media from a medical school professor, boasting that women and applicants of color were up...
Ellis: Depression and Poor Health for African Americans
By Glenn Ellis
Are you like millions of Americans, in a rut of being unhealthy, rundown, overweight, and unmotivated and can’t seem to break the...
Ellis: Menthol Cigarettes More Dangerous than Flavored E-Cigarettes
By Glenn Ellis
Most recently, like others in the media, I have written about what we know about the potential deadly effects of smoking flavored...
Ellis: Our World Before and After Vaccines
By Glenn Ellis
It’s that time of the year when, between back-to-school and flu season, the conversations for and against vaccines really heat up.
Let me...
