Walking is Great Exercise for Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension With the holiday season behind us, many of us have acquired a few pounds that we would like to shed.  January is a great time of the year to embark on a healthy lifestyle.  We will begin a series of articles that focus on this topic. Walk Your Way To Better Health Staying active is a core aspect of a healthy … [Read more...]

With Medicare Open Enrollment currently underway (October 15th through December 7th) we thought this would be a good time to review some basic facts about Medicare. So if you have chronic lung disease like Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension or Pulmonary Fibrosis, here's what you need to know. What is Medicare? Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people 65 and … [Read more...]

How You Look vs. How You Feel with Pulmonary Hypertension You can’t always judge a book by its cover.  Some medical problems are obvious and others are not so obvious.  One of the challenges of PAH is that for many patients their disease is not evident to the casual observer.  My patients are frustrated that their friends and family often comment that they look great even when … [Read more...]

What is Zika? Zika is a virus spread via infected mosquitoes or from having sex with an infected individual. Most cases are being reported in South America but recently two neighborhoods in Miami, Florida have also been identified as having Zika carrying mosquitoes. Most people that are infected with Zika will not have much of an illness (perhaps some flu-like symptoms).  … [Read more...]