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You’re not alone if you’re dealing with dry, itchy skin right now. Itching is the single most common winter complaint about skin, says David J. Leffell, MD, a dermatologist and the David P. Smith professor of dermatology and surgery at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. I call it the Doc, I have one more thing. Just as you’re leaving the room, the patient opens up about how itchy and dry their skin is,” he says.
If you’re struggling with chronic dry, itchy skin from a condition such as eczema, you know how much these symptoms can impact your life. “We recently did a study on the overall impact on quality of life in patients suffering from chronic itch and found that the level of quality impairment in these patients is similar to the level of patients who experienced a stroke,” says Shawn Kwatra, MD, dermatologist and assistant professor of dermatology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The research, which was pu
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PHILIPPI Broaddus Hospital of Philippi is growing to meet the demand for family medicine and inpatient care in Barbour County.
Dr. Garrett Butler will work as a full-time family practitioner at Broaddus Family Care (BFC), and will serve as hospitalist, providing medical care to hospitalized patients.
“Dr. Butler has been part of the Broaddus Family Care team for more than three years, and patients love him. We’re so happy that he will now be with us full time, opening his schedule to care for even more county residents,” said Broaddus Hospital CEO Dana Gould.
Butler will see patients Monday through Friday.
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When you have a systemic disease such as RA, joint pain is not limited to one part of the body. Pain may occur in the jaw, the wrist, and many other joints.
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can come out of the blue or be diagnosed years after it’s first suspected.
Either way, when you or a loved one is diagnosed, it can be confusing and overwhelming to realize how much there is to learn about the disease and its treatments.
1. You re Not Too Young to Have RA
That s what Shelley Fritz, 51, of Kauai, Hawaii, learned when she found out she had rheumatoid arthritis at age 42. Her initial reaction that she was too young to get RA is typical, says rheumatologistRebecca Manno, MD, adjunct assistant professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
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Google developed its own COVID-19 database that can efficiently track new variants of the novel coronavirus and tell if a person s immunity will last long. Google s innovation is expected to help medical experts, especially epidemiologists.
According to Nature s latest report, the new Google-funded is very different from the global COVID-19 dashboard, managed and maintained by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Why? Because the new database called Global.health collects an unprecedented amount of anonymized information about individual cases in one location. Global.health is the first of its kind, easy-to-use global data repository and visualization platform that enables open access to real-time epidemiological anonymized line-list data, said Google via Global Health s official website.