
Swimming lessons save lives: What parents should know

Preventing and treating iliotibial (IT) band syndrome: Tips for pain-free movement

Wildfires: How to cope when smoke affects air quality and health

What can magnesium do for you and how much do you need?

Dry socket: Preventing and treating a painful condition that can occur after tooth extraction

What happens during sleep — and how to improve it

How is metastatic prostate cancer detected and treated in men over 70?

Could biofeedback help your migraines?

What is autism spectrum disorder?

Plantar warts: Options for treating this common foot condition

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?

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
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?

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
Ticked off: America’s quiet epidemic of tickborne diseases

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
The bacterial horror of hot-air hand dryers

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
This year’s flu season: Public health catastrophe or par for the course?

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
Is the “full course of antibiotics” full of baloney?

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
Charles Darwin, Chagas’ disease, and the killer kissing bugs of California

Cancer
E-cigarettes: Good news, bad news

John Ross, MD, FIDSA
What the rise of Zika (and other viruses) might tell us about our planet

Child & Teen Health
What you need to know about Zika virus

Swimming lessons save lives: What parents should know

Preventing and treating iliotibial (IT) band syndrome: Tips for pain-free movement

Wildfires: How to cope when smoke affects air quality and health

What can magnesium do for you and how much do you need?

Dry socket: Preventing and treating a painful condition that can occur after tooth extraction

What happens during sleep — and how to improve it

How is metastatic prostate cancer detected and treated in men over 70?

Could biofeedback help your migraines?

What is autism spectrum disorder?

Plantar warts: Options for treating this common foot condition