About Janelle Vaesa, MPH

Hormone replacement therapy – it can be necessary for good health, but a new study shows that long-term HRT can actually be harmful for your heart.

Ebola in the U.S. – health professionals have numerous concerns over safety and protocol for care in our hospitals. Are our nurses and doctors safe?

Are you feeling under the weather? So many scary viruses going around – how do you know whether it’s just the flu or that enterovirus, or even ebola?

There’s another health outbreak to worry about. Why are so many kids ending up in the hospital with HEV-D68? And what is a polio-like enterovirus anyway?

With the number of aid workers small, and a lack of financial support, it seems unlikely that the WHO roadmap will lead to success in fighting the Ebola outbreak.

The Ebola virus is now in the United States, brought with two aid workers from Africa. Should you be worried about this disease and its 90% fatality rate?

The microscopic scabies mite has been spotted in camps for immigrant children crossing into the U.S. – even a Border Patrol agent has caught the disease.

We call it the cruiseship virus, but research shows you’re more likely to get the stomach flu from restaurant food. Is the GII.4 norovirus really worse than earlier versions?

Wikipedia is full of errors, since anyone can write or update an entry – yet half of today’s doctors use the site to look up information for their patients.