Dr Sonal wants to get healthy with you.

02/01/2026

♥️🙏🏽♥️.

The American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations for hepatitis B, influenza and other shots buck changes made by the Trump administration.

01/28/2026

Day 3 with no power. I could see my breath today inside my home and we had also lost cellular. This has been such a hard week for so many for so many reasons. The ice has quietened my world and my Internet.

The ice has caused so much storm damage but also looks so beautiful and radiant in the sunlight. The love and fierce advocacy for our country and our citizens and our constitution in Minneaopolis make me emotionally so grateful for my fellow patriotic Americans while keenly aware it is so scary that It is needed. 

Sometimes it all feels like so much and you had no electricity. So you didn’t even know what you didn’t know.

So it made me very happy to read an article once I went to work about how people who read books live longer. Since that was all I was doing with no power. Reading a physical book in the light or audiobook in the dark.

I feel this in my bones. Curled up with a book now that I am thoroughly enjoying, Theo of Golden by Allen Levi, recommended to me by a dear patient and friend. It feels like the Ted Lasso of books, kind and compassionate and meaningful and genuine and not infrequently hilarious. Highly recommend a read. ♥️🙏🏽♥️

May we all treat other gently and with radical love and may we truly see our fellow man. And may we be given the same compassion in return. This is how we change the world. With love. ♥️🙏🏽♥️

ETA: Wednesday morning and the power is back on! Thank you so much for all the love. We are incredibly blessed. ♥️🙏🏽♥️

01/25/2026

In case your power is not out like ours. Might be something to share and learn with your family. ♥️🙏🏽♥️

01/23/2026

988 is our su***de hotline number.
You don’t have to be “that bad” to call.
You deserve help. You deserve to feel better. ♥️🙏🏽♥️

01/23/2026

Sometimes our lack of fear is from lack of understanding and the fact that it’s much harder to appreciate the effect of an intervention like these newborn vitamin k injections which have caused an *absence* of brain bleeds and dramatically decreased newborn deaths.

Since babies are born with very low levels of Vitamin K, a vital nutrient that helps their blood clot properly, experts at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt urge families to get single dose of Vitamin K at birth.

Without this preventive shot — which has been the standard of care for 65 years — newborns are at risk for vitamin K deficiency bleeding.

“Infant mortality rates have decreased dramatically because we are learning more and more about how to keep babies alive,” said Anna Morad, MD, associate professor of Pediatrics at Monroe Carell and director of Newborn Nursery at Vanderbilt Health. “Vitamin K is one of the things that keeps babies alive.”

Protect your baby during those first few vulnerable weeks of life. Read our article to learn more, and discuss any questions with your pediatrician.

01/22/2026

If you need any more reasons to drink less …

Although alcohol use is declining in the U.S., drinking still poses an enormous threat to public health.

01/17/2026

This. Ask your physician if you have questions. Not the Internet.

01/16/2026

Want to get better quality sleep?

Can you get your phone off your nightstand? Out of your room? Can you minimize the light especially blue and green light? Even from an alarm clock? Can you get the clutter off your nightstand?

You got this.

If you’re not sleeping well, your nightstand could be to blame. Organizing experts share five items that may be disrupting your sleep.

01/13/2026

Get your flu shot if you haven’t yet.
This strain has been a doozy. Any help is welcome.

01/11/2026

https://www.earth.com/news/fda-issues-recall-for-a-popular-blood-pressure-medication-ziac/

FDA and Glenmark issue a recall on 11,000 bottles of Ziac due to cross-contamination. Check NDC and lot number.