Oh, ticks. For some reason, they make your skin crawl more than their more ubiquitous blood-sucking brethren, the mosquito. This is odd because the mosquito contributes to far more overall morbidity and mortality worldwide, but there’s just something a little …
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Are vaccinated people driving the new variants of coronavirus that we’re seeing, like the Omicron variant everybody’s talking about? The answer is no, vaccinated people are not driving the new variants. In fact, it is quite the opposite. Unvaccinated people …
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Do you need the vaccine if you’ve already had Covid and presumably you already have the antibodies? The short answer is yes, you do. SARS-CoV-2 loves to mutate, and that’s the big thing. If you’ve had Covid, you have the …
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The answer is unequivocally, yes, you should. If you have any type of immunocompromised condition at all, organ transplant, any autoimmune disease, any cancer treatment that you might be taking, or if you have any lung compromising diseases, or if …
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We asked you to share your questions with us regarding vaccines. Dr. Crosbie is up first answering the question, “Can the COVID-19 vaccine give you blood clots?” Transcript We got a question; can the vaccine give you blood clots? I’m …
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Jonathan Crosbie, D.O., an assistant professor of family and internal medicine at Des Moines University and a physician in the DMU Clinic, will participate in a one-hour special about the respiratory disease COVID-19 in a program on Iowa PBS on …
Don’t let poison ivy ruin your summer—learn how to identify, treat and avoid it all year round. I don’t want to overstate this, but poison ivy is the worst thing growing on Planet Earth. Too harsh an assessment? Maybe. But …