Carb cycling: What is it, and does it work?
Understanding orthorexia: Have your healthy eating goals gone too far?
Melatonin or magnesium: Can either supplement help you sleep?
Salmonella, E. coli, Cyclospora, and other germs that cause food poisoning: What you need to know
Shingrix shingles vaccine linked with lower heart disease risks
Harvard study: Healthier fats linked to longer life after prostate cancer diagnosis
Naturally gluten-free foods
Stair climbing may significantly lower cardiovascular risks
Estrogen-only hormone therapy tied to lower dementia risk
Should you have a hysterectomy?
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?
Immune and infectious diseases
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?
Immune and infectious diseases
Ticked off: America’s quiet epidemic of tickborne diseases
Immune and infectious diseases
The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers
Immune and infectious diseases
This year’s flu season: Public health catastrophe or par for the course?
Immune and infectious diseases
Is the “full course of antibiotics” full of baloney?
Immune and infectious diseases
Charles Darwin, Chagas’ disease, and the killer kissing bugs of California
Cancer
E-cigarettes: Good news, bad news
Immune and infectious diseases
What the rise of Zika (and other viruses) might tell us about our planet
Pediatric health
What you need to know about Zika virus
Carb cycling: What is it, and does it work?
Understanding orthorexia: Have your healthy eating goals gone too far?
Melatonin or magnesium: Can either supplement help you sleep?
Salmonella, E. coli, Cyclospora, and other germs that cause food poisoning: What you need to know
Shingrix shingles vaccine linked with lower heart disease risks
Harvard study: Healthier fats linked to longer life after prostate cancer diagnosis
Naturally gluten-free foods
Stair climbing may significantly lower cardiovascular risks
Estrogen-only hormone therapy tied to lower dementia risk
Should you have a hysterectomy?
