Teresa Fuller is a pediatrician.

Reversing the impact of the pandemic on childhood obesity

Conditions
April 28, 2022

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and communities had to take rapid and decisive action to protect their citizens against this novel virus. While it was yet unclear how dangerous the COVID-19 infection may be to children, their teachers, and their families, governments quickly shut down schools and activities to slow the spread among the population at large.

Before the pandemic, childhood obesity was already a crisis with …

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Reversing the impact of the pandemic on childhood obesity

Is there a role for vitamin D in the treatment of COVID-19?

Conditions
November 3, 2020

As we continue to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic causing spiking numbers of cases, the scientific and medical communities continue to search for effective treatments and preventive measures.  We have clearly established the importance of wearing masks, physical distancing, and frequent handwashing.

As of this article’s writing, there are over two hundred fifty articles on PubMed about the connection between vitamin D and COVID-19.  As the research studies are undergoing, evidence …

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Is there a role for vitamin D in the treatment of COVID-19?

Imagining a pandemic as a physician novelist

Physician
July 26, 2020

Writing a pandemic novel is sort of like running a mock code. You may feel a tinge of fear as you work through the actively changing scenario, but mostly you feel the excitement of the challenge. Yet when an actual patient is deteriorating before you, all you feel is terror.

In 2007, as I was traveling daily between Washington, DC and Baltimore on a commuter train, I read an …

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Imagining a pandemic as a physician novelist