top of page
Search
Keith McGuinness
Feb 15, 2021
President Washington’s Oft-forgotten War Against the Smallpox Epidemic
“When historians debate Washington’s most consequential decisions as commander in chief, they are almost always arguing about specific...
6 views0 comments
Keith McGuinness
Sep 25, 2020
A Precision Medicine Case Study: Contrasting Medical and Legal Standards of Evidence
“Our medical system is shifting from a one-size-fits-all approach [ ] to targeting health care to a patient’s unique molecular and...
10 views0 comments
Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, MDIV
Sep 10, 2020
Vitamin D Status and COVID-19 Risk
A retrospective study of 489 hospitalized patients showed a risk of 1.77 times greater for contracting Covid-19 if one’s vitamin D level...
13 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
Reproductive Health - Stress is a Double Whammy
Stress is known to decrease fertility and sexual behavior, but researchers thought this was because stress hormones reduce levels of a...
5 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
Obesity is as much a psychological problem, as it is a physical one
Psychological issues can not only foreshadow the development of obesity, but they can also follow ongoing struggles to control weight....
20 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
Effect on Immune Response of Chronic Stress vs Episodic Severe Stress
"Many studies have demonstrated that psychological stress, through its suppression of both innate and adaptive immune responses, may be...
4 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Sep 8, 2020
Migraine and Repeated Stressors
"Migraine offers a unique model to understand the consequences of repeated stressors on the brain." "...the effects of repeated stress...
13 views0 comments
Keith McGuinness
Aug 31, 2020
Polio: Lessons from American History
My father contracted polio in the 1930s. Although he eventually recovered, the disease took a permanent toll on his body. This essay, by...
10 views0 comments
Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, MDIV
Aug 28, 2020
Normal Weight Children with FTO Gene Variant Eat More than Peers
Children who have a variance at the FTO gene (also known as the obesity gene), unconsciously, consume more calories than their peers....
17 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Aug 27, 2020
A Curious Connection Between Tinnitus and Physical Activity
A study out of the University of Illinois revealed not only that those who have tinnitus process emotional sounds differently than those...
9 views0 comments
Keith McGuinness
Aug 11, 2020
Nutrigenetics, Epigenetics, Nutrigenomics, Metabolomics, the Microbiome and the NIH
Healthy or sick, learning how food and genes interact is as fundamental as understanding one’s family history. In its recently released...
11 views0 comments
Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, MDIV
Aug 3, 2020
CoQ-10 Genetics, Statins and Pain
Years ago, while working at an Air Force (AF) base, four active duty members came to see me with diffuse muscle pain in their legs,...
15 views0 comments
Thomas McKnight, MD, MPH, MDIV
Jul 30, 2020
Low Vitamin D Levels & Covid-19 Death
Multiple studies from various countries of patients struggling with Covid-19 have shown the lower one’s serum vitamin D level the more...
26 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Jul 28, 2020
Eczema & Psychological Stress
“Atopic Dermatitis (AD) [(aka Eczema)] is a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin that results from interplay of environmental...
5 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Jul 23, 2020
Teach Stress Management - NOW in Public Schools
Some scientists suggest that future interventions at the cellular level may help to manage the disease consequences of psychological...
14 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Jul 21, 2020
Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Stress
“Chronic stress and endocrine stress responses are significantly associated with glucose intolerance, insulin resistance and diabetes...
17 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Jul 20, 2020
Stress and Migraine Attacks
“Stress as a trigger for migraine attacks is present in nearly 70% of individuals “High levels of stress are reported in migraine...
7 views0 comments
Keith McGuinness
Jul 19, 2020
The Role of Advanced Practice Providers: IBS (Inflammatory Bowel Disease)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The Role of Advanced Practice Providers - “APPs can provide careful monitoring and management of medication...
12 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Jul 19, 2020
Clinical Health Psychology (CHP) is a PHYSICAL health specialty
Clinical Health Psychology (CHP) is a PHYSICAL health specialty that investigates and implements clinical services across diverse...
13 views0 comments
Kevin McGuinness
Jul 18, 2020
Depression and Inflammation
“[D]epression facilitates inflammation, which promotes depression [with] adverse health consequences for [heart] disease, diabetes,...
11 views0 comments
bottom of page