With international travel back on the upswing, I’ve been getting more calls recently for travel-related information. Fortunately, the precautions and medications needed for most travelers are straightforward. I will cover general preparations for travel, tips to keep in mind while traveling, and finally, I will touch upon a common cause of pre-travel anxiety: traveler’s diarrhea (aka “Montezuma’s Revenge”).

Several important tests are now available to help women maintain the best possible health as they age. The most common ones used are mammography and bone density-screening.

A patient of ours recently came into the clinic with what looked like appendicitis. We quickly got our patient into our on-site ultrasound suite where pictures of the inflamed appendix were obtained and our patient was subsequently sent to the emergency room.