Tuberculosis

Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D. Guest: Matthew B. Anastasi, M.D. Patients with concussions are commonly seen in primary care practices and concussions don’t spare any particular age group. Children, young adult athletes and older individuals are all at increased risk. They’re a form ...  Show more

Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D. Guest: Stephen Kopecky, M.D. One of the biggest surprises we’ve seen in medicine in the past several years has been the numerous health benefits realized from the GLP-1 agonists. Originally developed for the management of diabetes, they’ve shown signi ...  Show more

Tuberculosis, or consumption as it was once known, might conjure up images of huge sanitoriums or writers and artists from the late 1800s (Moulin Rouge, anyone?). But this deadly disease is far from an illness of the past. In many parts of the world, tuberculosis remains an insid ...  Show more

Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an infectious, airborne, and potentially deadly lung disease. The country accounts for almost 30 percent of all TB cases worldwide and well above a third of global deaths from it. Because TB’s preva ...  Show more

Pertussis or whooping cough is an acute infectious disease caused by Bordetella pertussis. It is highly contagious, highly serious, and highly preventable. To find out more about this condition, please do listen to this BMJ Best Practice podcast interview with Professor Sir Andre ...  Show more

This week on The Wellness Way we have guest Dr Andrew Kaufman, a psychiatrist, molecular biologist and researcher known for challenging the foundations of modern medicine. In this conversation, we explore the origins of illness through the lens of terrain theory. The idea that it ...  Show more