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Day by day, we’re learn­ing more about the COVID-19 virus and how to fight it. Anti­body test­ing is prov­ing to be a pow­er­ful tool for the med­ical com­mu­ni­ty in this fight, though there con­tin­ues to be con­fu­sion and mis­un­der­stand­ing about its pur­pose and mean­ing. The fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion out­lines what you should know about COVID-19 anti­body test­ing and how to get one for yourself. 

To effec­tive­ly elim­i­nate as many germs as pos­si­ble and reduce the spread of dis­eases like COVID-19, it’s impor­tant to clean all com­mon­ly used sur­faces through­out your home, car and hand­bag, includ­ing your elec­tron­ic devices. Here are six tips to dis­in­fect your elec­tron­ic devices.

The COVID-19 out­break is scary, and it’s not going away quick­ly. So how can we take the pres­sure off of par­ents so they can get back to par­ent­ing well?

Polyps are often dis­cussed when talk­ing about col­orec­tal can­cer or its screen­ing tests includ­ing a colonoscopy. While you may be famil­iar with the term, you may not know what a polyp is, how it forms and what you can do to pre­vent them. Gas­troen­terol­o­gist, Kaitlin Wan­ta, DO, shares what you should know about polyps and some tips to pre­vent them.

Chil­dren don’t need to know every­thing we’ve seen on the news and every sto­ry we’ve heard. Instead, it helps to focus on meet­ing them where they are. Here’s how to get start­ed talk­ing with your child about coro­n­avirus (COVID-19).

It’s no secret that com­plet­ing pre­ven­tive screen­ings, like a colonoscopy, sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­ers your risk of devel­op­ing (or dying from) col­orec­tal can­cer. Even though it has been proven to be an extreme­ly effec­tive way to pre­vent col­orec­tal can­cer, near­ly a third of eli­gi­ble adults have not com­plet­ed their colonoscopy. To encour­age you to com­plete your screen­ing, our board-cer­ti­fied Gas­troen­terol­o­gists offer their reBUT­Tals to some of the most com­mon excus­es used to delay get­ting a colonoscopy.

Pap smears, also known as Pap test­ing, offer valu­able insight into your pelvic health. This screen­ing allows your physi­cian to observe cel­lu­lar changes and abnor­mal­i­ties on your cervix and can also iden­ti­fy your like­li­hood of devel­op­ing cer­vi­cal cancer.

Think about your cur­rent work­out rou­tine. Is it the same every day? Do you find your­self bored or unmo­ti­vat­ed? Are you no longer see­ing the results you used to? If you answered ​“yes” to any of these ques­tions, you may need to add vari­ety and recov­ery into your rou­tine. These are crit­i­cal ele­ments of any suc­cess­ful exer­cise pro­gram and can ben­e­fit every­one – from work­out enthu­si­asts to those just start­ing to exercise.

Uter­ine fibroids are non-can­cer­ous tumors that grow with­in uter­ine mus­cle tis­sue and are the most com­mon tumor with­in the female repro­duc­tive sys­tem. As a result, all women are at poten­tial risk of devel­op­ing fibroids, with a major­i­ty of cas­es diag­nosed in women between the ages of 35 and 54.

It is rec­om­mend­ed that adults receive sev­en to nine hours of sleep each night. How­ev­er, get­ting the sleep you need to func­tion at your best is not always as easy as it sounds.