Masood N. Khan M.D. F.A.C.P. Through the "Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 and its amendment in April 2014, FDA has regulated consumption of tobacco in the U.S. It is well known that the use of tobacco in cigarettes, cigars, pipes and hookahs is the leading preventable....................

Masood N. Khan M.D., F.A.C.P Ebola virus belongs to the family of ‘filoviridae’ which are shaped like a thread. It is named after a river in Sudan. It is the second virus discovered in the class of thread viruses. The other one is called Marburg virus. It is 80 nanometer....................

Masood N. Khan M.D., F.A.C.P. What is metabolically healthy obesity? This term has come into common usage nowadays. Yes there is such thing as ‘metabolically healthy obesity’. It is defined as overweight condition with a BMI (Body Mass Index – an index of weight and height) of 30 or above....................

Masood N. Khan M.D. Sleep apnea (AP-ne-ah) simply means cessation of breathing during sleep. This occurs as pauses in breathing during sleep lasting from a few seconds to minutes. Such pauses can be quite frequent during the entire sleep. The most common effects of sleep apnea are two. The oxygen....................

Masood N. Khan M.D., F.A.C.P In the olden days when life was simple and families were bound, end of life also used to be a natural and simple event without much fanfare, medico-legal ramifications or physical indignities due to technological advances a dying person is often subjected to, in today’s....................

Masood N. Khan M.D., F.A.C.P. Health reform legislation, called Affordable Care Act and nicknamed Obamacare, could be rightly called President Obama’s biggest achievement. Presently, health care insurance programs are based on private health insurance companies and government programs of Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare, put into law by President Lyndon Johnson....................

Masood N. Khan M.D. The exponential increase in the incidence of diabetes will soon likely make it a pandemic, meaning, so widespread globally that it could assume a rate of spread as that of an infectious disease. People suffering from diabetes around the world have increased from 108 million in....................

Maryam Hamid M.D. The Latest Dietary Guidelines from Departments of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and Agriculture (USDA): We have been told many times that regular exercise and consumption of a healthy diet can lead to a host of benefits including increased energy, happiness, health and even long life. It....................

Maryam Hamid M.D. The number of people living with hypertension (high blood pressure) is predicted to be 1.56 billion worldwide by the year 2025. In the US, about 75 million American adults, 29% of the total population, have high blood pressure—that is 1 of every 3 adults. Only about half....................

HORMONE THERAPY AFTER MENOPAUSE DOES NOT INCREASE RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR OR CANCER MORTALITY:A recent study addressing risks involved with harmone therapy after menopaus dispels concerns about increased incidence of breast cancer created by earlier studies. Allcause mortality among 27,347 participants in placebo control trial was 27.1% in hormone therapy group....................