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October is again Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Articles and programs will appear in the media emphasizing an awareness of the incidence of the disease and the treatment of breast cancer in our society. As male breast cancer is unusual, the media effort is often presented in literature and programming focused on women’s health. Yet as […]

The Boca Grande Health Clinic is honored to bring back a favorite Boca Beacon column started in the early 2000s by Dr. Hank Wright, called “Curbstone Consult.” For 17 years, Dr. Wright, who passed in 2016, was the only doctor at the Clinic. The column resulted from the innocent questions people would ask when he […]

A cardinal prerequisite for a successful career in science is the willingness to be willing to change one’s mind as to the answer to a hypothesis based on the scientific results of the experiment. For investigations and observations of the pandemic and the COVID-19 virus, continued scientific analysis has resulted in different medical recommendations and […]

During this pandemic I have been surprised by the amount of misinformation regarding COVID-19, and amazed that intelligent people have supported treatments or misinformation without scientific support.  How does this happen? Researchers have found that we tend to believe what we hear or read, and only about 30 percent of Americans are able to recognize […]