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“Sleep apnea is just snoring.” …IS FALSE. Snoring can be a symptom of the sleep disorder, but there’s a BIG difference between the two. Sleep apnea is no joke; it’s a health issue that has been linked to quality of life and heart health problems.

Have you noticed that your sinus symptoms – facial pain, congestion, difficulty breathing through the nose, headache – are worse this time of year? You’re not alone!  There are several factors that can aggravate allergies, sinusitis, and other s

Two terms you’ve heard paired with COVID-19 are respirator and ventilator. While we’ve heard the terms in similar context, they serve two very different, while important, purposes. So, what’s the difference between a respirator and a ventilator? The shor

As we live through a global pandemic, each morning we awake to remind ourselves this is not a science fiction movie, but rather a significant, and very real historical event. The scope of which will be recounted in history books for centuries and told to child

The virus that causes COVID-19, like all viruses, isn’t a living organism; it isn’t even a cell. It’s a nanoparticle composed of 3 building blocks: a genetic control center (in this case, RNA) wrapped in a fatty lipid membrane (the viral protective coat)

Over the last month, we’ve seen how quickly and seemingly easily COVID-19 is spread and the life-threatening – even detrimental – effects it’s had on our population. By limiting the spread today, we can all do our part to “flatten the cur

Since we do not have a vaccine for COVID-19 yet, and vaccines normally take a year or more to develop, the concept of Herd Immunity has gotten a lot of bad press lately. COVID-19 is a pandemic, meaning that we have failed to contain the spread of this virus fr

The Big Questions, Answered: Many people are wondering why some people who are infected with COVID-19 get mild to minimal symptoms, while others succumb to a life-threatening illness. This is baffling clinicians across the globe, but we can’t just throw our

What a lot of individuals don’t realize is that the coronavirus is one of the viruses that causes the common cold. While human coronaviruses have been around since the 1960s, viruses can change their virulence over time, which relates to how contagious the v