Healthwise

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…

It has been well engrained in our psych by years of emphasis by doctors that exercise is always good and more the better. It is no doubt, there is abundance…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Masood N. Khan M.D. Metabolic Syndrome Based upon the data obtained through numerous studies relating to cardiovascular disease focusing specially on the risk factors, the medical science has now clearly…

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…

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…

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…