
Dragon fruit: How to enjoy this antioxidant-rich fruit

Are you getting health care you don't need?

Could you benefit from wearing compression socks?

A low-tech school vacation: Keeping kids busy and happy without screens

Mold in the home: Identifying and treating the issue to prevent health problems

Effective, practical strategies for coping with urinary incontinence

Scalp psoriasis: What to know about this uncomfortable inflammatory skin condition

Measles is making a comeback: Can we stop it?

Should you be sleepmaxxing to boost health and happiness?

Need a root canal? Here's what to expect

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

Diseases & Conditions
Poliovirus in wastewater: Should we be concerned?

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
Bad flu season predicted — did you get your shot?

Diseases & Conditions
Chronic Lyme arthritis: A mystery solved?

Diseases & Conditions
Measles: The serious risks of falling vaccination rates

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
Is hand sanitizer better at preventing the flu than soap and water?

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
Ticked off: America’s quiet epidemic of tickborne diseases

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
This year’s flu season: Public health catastrophe or par for the course?

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
Is the “full course of antibiotics” full of baloney?

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
Charles Darwin, Chagas’ disease, and the killer kissing bugs of California

Cancer
E-cigarettes: Good news, bad news

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
What the rise of Zika (and other viruses) might tell us about our planet

Child & Teen Health
What you need to know about Zika virus

Dragon fruit: How to enjoy this antioxidant-rich fruit

Are you getting health care you don't need?

Could you benefit from wearing compression socks?

A low-tech school vacation: Keeping kids busy and happy without screens

Mold in the home: Identifying and treating the issue to prevent health problems

Effective, practical strategies for coping with urinary incontinence

Scalp psoriasis: What to know about this uncomfortable inflammatory skin condition

Measles is making a comeback: Can we stop it?

Should you be sleepmaxxing to boost health and happiness?

Need a root canal? Here's what to expect