Standing on a chair tucked safely into the corner of the kitchen, I enthusiastically stirred the cookie dough as my beloved great-grandmother added ingredients. Together we made messes, laughed, cleaned up and enjoyed the warm delicious treats we created. To this day, I still think about her every time I bake and treasure the memories
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Let’s take a break to slow down even for a day to not only be grateful but pause before we enter the frenzy of December and holiday season. Here are two recipes that will surely delight your family celebrations that can even be prepared by the little ones. The apple tart and cranberry muffins have
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Happy November, all! Pediatric vaccine news flash! As many of you know, on November 2nd, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously to recommend all children ages 5 through 11 get a low-dose COVID-19 vaccine. You can read more about this and more in Dr. Sky Pittson’s excellent piece below. As
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On November 2nd, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously to recommend all children ages 5 through 11 get a low-dose COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech. Hours later, CDC director Rochelle Wolensky issued the final approval making 28 million children eligible for the vaccine which will soon be available across the country
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A CGM, or continuous glucose monitor, is a slim glucose sensor applied to the belly or arm, with a very small needle (described by Dexcom, one of the companies that makes them, as “soft and flexible like a kitten’s whisker”) to continuously measure glucose levels in the interstitial fluid of the tissue just below the
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Friends! Let me start with wishes for a safe, happy, and healthy Halloween! 🎃🎃 How great to be able to safely go out and about (as blessed by the CDC!), and equally good that last week’s “bomb cyclone” was last weekend and not this weekend. Whew. You can read more about Halloween Safety in Dr.
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We’ve reached that part of the year where time seems to move even faster than normal. Once we get to Halloween, it’s just 25 days until Thanksgiving and then 54 days until Christmas. Thankfully this year it seems like the holidays will be a bit more normal than last year at least as long as
I often get asked by my patients, young, middle aged and older, how they can maintain or even, improve their cognitive function. There is indeed some amount of normal age related memory loss that occurs in all people. This is due to the hippocampal region of the brain losing at least 20 % of its
Friends! If there was ever a time to get a flu shot, it would be this year. I’m generally a big proponent of being immunized against influenza, but this year I’m giving even a bigger shout out (and if you are a TVD patient, our flu shots are IN, please give us a call
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In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get your pink out! The current guidelines across all agencies is for a woman age 50 and over should have yearly mammograms. Additional testing such as ultrasounds may be needed if you are in high risk group such has 1st degree relative with Breast Cancer. The guidelines
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Greetings, friends of TVD, Fall is in the air, can you feel it? Stanford had its first home, and in person, football game over the weekend, providing some sense of normalcy and change of the seasons (go 🌲🌲’s!). And sort of normal, it will be flu shot season before you know it (next month, October),
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October is ‘think pink” with breast cancer awareness taking position as front and center. While breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women,there is good news in that death rates have fallen by about 1% a year since 2013. This is likely for treatment advances. Screening for breast cancer remains a vital part
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Ideally, children and adolescents (and adults!) should get their recommended daily intake of vitamins and minerals from their healthy balanced diet. However, with picky kindergarteners or suddenly vegetarian teens, it can be hard to determine what they might be lacking. While there is a full alphabet of vitamins and minerals, six stand out as the
Friends of TVD, It has been an interesting week in the world of research. Groundbreaking studies into how well beards soften punches to the face, the benefits of transporting rhinoceroses upside down, and orgasms as a nasal decongestant were honoured on Thursday night with one of the most coveted awards in science: the Ig Nobel
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“A” is for all. As in G’day, all! “B” is for breastfeeding. And August is Breastfeeding Awareness Month. And new babies, I suppose! Please see below for an interesting piece by this month’s Guest Author, Cherie Zappas Tannenbaum, a Nurse Practitioner and Lactation Consultant who comes very highly recommended by TVD pediatricians, Dr. Sky Pittson
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