Southeast Huntsville Family Practice

09/17/2022

USPSTF guidance published from August reported in JAMA recommends statins for adults ages 40 to 75 who have one or more risk factors of cardiovascular disease and a 10% or greater risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years. Those risk factors include diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking or high cholesterol. To calculate a person’s risk score, doctors also take into account factors like a person’s age, s*x, race, blood pressure, cholesterol numbers and family history.

06/03/2022

Leaving your cholesterol uncontrolled has a cumulative effect. Let us help you find the right medicine.

From benefits to side effects

03/27/2022

We have a few shots left

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/flu-cases-face-an-uptick/ar-AAVxn52?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

Flu cases are making an appearance as we enter allergy season.

03/13/2022

Winding down, perhaps?

https://www.nytimes.com/article/omicron-variant-ba2.html

02/28/2022

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/all-of-north-alabama-remains-in-high-or-substantial-risk-of-covid-19-spread/ar-AAUo63q?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

All of North Alabama remains in high or substantial risk of COVID-19 spread

01/07/2022

Get boosted as soon as you are eligible, please!

https://whnt.com/news/covid-19/fda-reduces-waiting-period-for-moderna-recipients-to-get-booster-to-5-months/

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shortened the amount of time Moderna recipients need to wait to get a booster dose from six months to five months on Friday, aligning the timeline with Pfizer…

12/10/2021

https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-variants-emerge-vaccination-rates-doctor-160422826.html

Despite COVID-19 vaccines now widely available, vaccination rates are still lower than where they need to be.

11/27/2021

Slow uptake heightens fears that another coronavirus wave could hit hard as families gather for the holidays.

11/27/2021

Some information from an epidemiologist regarding the newest variant, Omicron.

I hope everyone in the States had a fantastic Thanksgiving (even if you’re a Dallas Cowboys football fan). I hate to ruin the holiday, but… We have a new variant. I’ve not seen this much anxiety ridden chatter among scientists about a COVID19 variant before. Even among the calm, cool, and coll...

11/06/2021

Got my flu shot last week and my COVID booster today. A family affair, we went together.

10/28/2021

A very nice summary.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/28/us/covid-breakthrough-cases.html

Data shows the vaccines kept working through the Delta surge, though some groups were at higher risk of breakthrough infections or death.

10/24/2021

This.

Whether you're vaccinated and wondering whether your shot has held up, or you're curious if last month's cold was COVID-19, here's what you need to know.

08/28/2021

Please read this.

08/28/2021

For those who argue the vaccines are not FDA approved (which is no longer true), neither is ivermectin.

Doing so can send you to the emergency room

08/22/2021

In case you are interested.

Pain at the injection site is the most common side effect of all three coronavirus vaccines authorized in the US.

08/20/2021

vac·cine
/vakˈsēn/

noun
noun: vaccine; plural noun: vaccines

a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
"every year the flu vaccine is modified to deal with new strains of the virus"

Yes, boosters! Vaccines boost immunity, they are not generally permanent. Flu, pneumonia, tetanus and most others all require boosters. It is an adjustment, not a fail.

08/13/2021

Hospitals around the country, especially in the Southeast, are "under great stress" as they try to balance surging cases of COVID, staff, and bed shortages, and even a lack of medical oxygen.

07/29/2021

https://www.waff.com/2021/07/29/alabama-has-highest-covid-case-positivity-rate-us/

Sarah Nafziger, M.D., vice president of UAB Hospital Clinical Services, said Thursday that Alabama now has the highest COVID positivity rate in the country.