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Chickpeas: Easy ways to eat more of this nutritious legume
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Do products that claim to stop snoring actually work?
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Flowers, chocolates, organ donation — are you in?
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Chair yoga: Benefits of a mind-body practice without the risk of falling
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Need a prescription for an ED medication? What to know about BlueChew, hims, Roman, and other online ED medication retailers
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Low-carb foods: Nutritious choices for creating a sustainable diet that's lower in carbohydrates
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Pilates: A good option for older adults?
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A muscle-building obsession in boys: What to know and do
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Calcium-rich foods: How to boost your intake of this important mineral
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DNR: What is a do-not-resuscitate order?
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John Ross, MD, FIDSA
Contributor; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing
Dr. John Ross is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases, and practices hospital medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is the author of Shakespeare’s Tremor and Orwell’s Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers, and is one of the editors of the textbook Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine.
Posts by John Ross, MD, FIDSA
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Diseases & Conditions
Poliovirus in wastewater: Should we be concerned?
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Bad flu season predicted — did you get your shot?
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Diseases & Conditions
Chronic Lyme arthritis: A mystery solved?
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Diseases & Conditions
Measles: The forgotten killer
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Is hand sanitizer better at preventing the flu than soap and water?
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Ticked off: America’s quiet epidemic of tickborne diseases
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John Ross, MD, FIDSA
The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers
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This year’s flu season: Public health catastrophe or par for the course?
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Is the “full course of antibiotics” full of baloney?
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Charles Darwin, Chagas’ disease, and the killer kissing bugs of California
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Cancer
E-cigarettes: Good news, bad news
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What the rise of Zika (and other viruses) might tell us about our planet
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Child & Teen Health
What you need to know about Zika virus
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Chickpeas: Easy ways to eat more of this nutritious legume
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Do products that claim to stop snoring actually work?
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Flowers, chocolates, organ donation — are you in?
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Chair yoga: Benefits of a mind-body practice without the risk of falling
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Need a prescription for an ED medication? What to know about BlueChew, hims, Roman, and other online ED medication retailers
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Low-carb foods: Nutritious choices for creating a sustainable diet that's lower in carbohydrates
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Pilates: A good option for older adults?
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A muscle-building obsession in boys: What to know and do
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Calcium-rich foods: How to boost your intake of this important mineral
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DNR: What is a do-not-resuscitate order?