A growing revolution in health care is a shift away from approaches that are not validated by research.  Instead, scientists are urging health-care professionals to practice “evidence-based care,” or EBC.  This approach involves using care plans that are backed by scientific research. Dr. Smith has always been an advocate of[…]

You’ve thoroughly cleaned your house.  It looks better, smells better and makes you feel better — you’ve created a cleaner, more sanitary, healthier environment for you and your family, right?  Maybe not.  Dr. Smith wants patients to understand that, depending on what cleaning products you use, you could be doing[…]

Dr. Smith is often asked if the term “growing pains” is fact or fiction.  Researchers agree that the periodic aches and pains children feel in their legs are real. Growing pains may attack at any time during childhood.  However, they generally occur at two times in a child’s life: between[…]

Dr. Smith is often asked if the term “growing pains” is fact or fiction.  Researchers agree that the periodic aches and pains children feel in their legs are real. Growing pains may attack at any time during childhood.  However, they generally occur at two times in a child’s life: between[…]