Naegleria fowleri and the ER physician with Dr Vincent Valente
Next in the series of interviews from the 4th Annual Amoeba Summit hosted by the Jordan Smelski Foundation, I talked to Asst. Medical Director for Emergency Medicine for AdventHealth, Altamonte Spring...
19 Sep 20195min
Naegleria fowleri drug research with Dennis Kyle, PhD
A major aspect of the 4th Annual Amoeba Summit, hosted by the Jordan Smelski Foundation, was a strong and necessary devotion to more drug research. I had the chance to speak with the Director, Center ...
18 Sep 20197min
Naegleria fowleri: Lab diagnosis with Shiela Black, MHM, BSMT(ASCP)
In my series of short interviews with the experts presenting at the 4th Annual Amoeba Summit, I look at the topic of laboratory diagnosis. Medical Technologist at AdventHealth in Orlando as the person...
17 Sep 20194min
Naegleria fowleri: The Sebastian DeLeon case with Dr. Humberto Liriano
In the summer of 2016, then 16-year-old Florida teen, Sebastian DeLeon wound up in a Orlando hospital diagnosed with primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) due to the parasite, Naegleria fowleri. I...
16 Sep 201910min
Naegleria fowleri: 4th Annual Amoeba Summit with Dr Jennifer Cope
I attended the 4th Annual Amoeba Summit this past Friday which was hosted by the Jordan Smelski Foundation. The list of speakers was incredible, the biggest experts on Naegleria fowleri in the country...
15 Sep 20196min
Measles and the MMR vaccine
With the Vaccine Mom Earlier this month, the World Health Organization released some astounding preliminary information concerning measles during the first half of the year. In the first six months of...
30 Aug 201927min
Lyme disease: The major players, the disagreements and the IDSA draft guidelines
Lyme disease. So much we seem not to know, in many different areas. Draft guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease were recently issued by the Infectious Disease Society of America (...
29 Aug 201925min
The HPV Vaccine: Talking to The Vaccine Mom
The CDC says HPV, or human papillomavirus, is a common virus that can lead to 6 types of cancers later in life. Almost every person who is sexually active will get HPV at some time in their life with...
21 Aug 20198min
