As the air is crisp, the skies are (mostly) blue and the Spring / Easter / Passover season is all around us, I hope this April newsletter finds you all healthy and well. In an intentional move NOT

Peace, Our concerns and newsletter topics do seem pale when there is a war raging on the other side of our globe. Tragic. I know many of you have already “booked” stays in Ukraine via Airbnb as a

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ! It should be no surprise that this month’s newsletter is oriented around “heart health”! Please see below for an overview of heart health by Dr. Jennifer Abrams, as well as a more specific piece

Happy and Healthy New Year, everyone. Well, it certainly hasn’t started that way, omicron has certainly been booming. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Just today the Mercury News reported on very recent modeling

Dear friends and family, I write these words today (December 21st), I am reminded that today is our winter solstice, which seems an apt introduction to this newsletter. As you will read below, there is much information about

Let us give thanks. As I try to squeeze this newsletter contribution in before it becomes December already (gasp!), let me, and all of us, pause for a few moments to give thanks, to hold a few undistracted

  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

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”

  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

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!).