by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 1, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
When you were in school, you may have read some of Eugene O’Neill’s more than 50 plays, such as Long Day’s Journey into Night, Desire Under the Elms, or A Moon for the Misbegotten. He was the only American playwright to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 27, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
We have no drugs yet proven to prevent or treat COVID-19, although some drugs appear promising, as do transfusions of blood donated by people who have recovered and are now immune. The virus is spread from one person to another; it has not been shown to be spread...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 26, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
When I was in high school, my history teacher told us that William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, died in 1841 from pneumonia because he didn’t wear a hat when he stood in the cold for hours during his inauguration. After that, I wore my...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 26, 2020 | Fitness
It’s normal to sweat more after you finish exercising than you do while you exercise. Your body temperature varies throughout the day, going from about 97 degrees in the early morning to about 99 degrees in the early evening. Exercise raises body temperature...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 19, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
It appears that the current COVID-19 pandemic will not be anywhere near as harmful as the swine flu influenza pandemic of 1918-1920 that started near the end of World War I, infected 500 million people, and killed about 39 million people, which was 2.3 percent of the...
