Linda Childers

With the 2023 football season firmly in the rearview mirror, Fox Sports sideline reporter Erin Andrews is focusing on her other passions. First and foremost is spending quality time with her husband, retired NHL player Jarret Stoll, and their son, Mack, who was born via surrogate in June 2023.
As perhaps the most recognizable female sportscaster in the U.S., Andrews is thankful that after a nine-year struggle with infertility, she and her husband were able to welcome Mack into their family.
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On her hit HGTV television series, “No Demo Reno,” Jenn Todryk, 35, is known for her high-energy approach to remodeling homes without a total demolition.
Through her blog and Instagram account, Todryk gets candid with her fans about her design work, family and how she lives with Hashimoto’s disease, a chronic autoimmune thyroid condition that affects about 5 in 100 people, most of them women.
About 20 million Americans have some form of thyroid disease, and as many as 6 out of 10 may not even...

Growing up, I was the kid who didn’t need to be coerced into eating vegetables. Artichokes? Yum! Spinach? Yes, please. So, when I heard about the green Mediterranean diet, I was excited to try this new plant-based spin on the traditional Mediterranean diet (MED).
While both the original MED and the updated green version emphasize plant-based foods and healthy fats, the green version provides added health benefits by eliminating all red and processed meats. In addition, the green MED adds in g...

Along with the rise in temperatures across the globe, doctors have also seen an increase in the number of chikungunya cases, a viral disease spread through mosquito bites that can lead to severe joint pain. Little research has been conducted on how long the virus continues to cause arthritis-like symptoms after the initial infection.
A study, published in the August 2020 issue of The Journal of Rheumatology, found one out of eight patients continue to experience classic joint pain up to three...

When Taylor Warmoth, MD, a rheumatologist with Arthritis and Osteoporosis Associates (AOA), Lubbock, Texas, posted her first educational video on TikTok in 2022, she anticipated a moderate response. She was surprised when her medical assistant informed her the next day that her video had received over 5,000 views, 800 comments, and her account had gained an additional 3,000 new followers. One year later, Dr. Warmoth has 59,400 TikTok followers.
“I initially launched a TikTok account to answer...

Dr. Singla
Saimun Singla, DO, a pediatric rheumatologist and owner of Rheum to Grow in Houston, can empathize when her young patients discuss the challenges of managing stiff and painful joints.
Board-certified in general pediatrics and pediatric rheumatology, and fellowship-trained in integrative medicine, Dr. Singla’s knowledge of rheumatic diseases goes far beyond what she learned in her formal education. While working as an attending physician at Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Dr. Si...

Key Takeaways
While all doctors can suffer from burnout, studies show that medical students who identify as LGBTQ+ are at greater risk for more intense burnout symptoms than their heterosexual peers.
Although attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community have become more positive, with GLAAD data showing support for LGBTQ+ individuals in America from non-LGBTQ people to be at an all-time high, this community continues to be attacked by a vocal fringe.
By avoiding assumptions about another physician’...

Key Takeaways
Social prescribing is an innovative tool used by physicians to provide non-medical interventions to their patients to address health conditions including anxiety, depression, social isolation, obesity, and more.
While social prescribing has been implemented in many countries, the United States has been slow in adopting the concept.
Some doctors in this country are rallying other physicians to advocate for social prescribing, especially given US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy’s...

Key Takeaways
Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is a rare cancer accounting for 3%–7% of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cases in the US and Europe.
Newer therapies, including CAR-T cell immunotherapy and non-covalent BTK inhibitors, have improved how MCL is treated when patients relapse.
Advances in the treatment of MCL offer patients more options and improve the outlook for long-term survival. Clinical trials are currently underway to study potential improvements in MCL treatments.
Mantle cell lymphoma (MC...

Key Takeaways
The weathering hypothesis, introduced in 1992, describes how chronic, multiple stressors, including racism and other forms of oppression, lead to premature aging, diminished quality of life, and poor health outcomes in marginalized groups.
Marginalized groups who are most affected by weathering include people of color, people of lower socioeconomic backgrounds in Appalachia, immigrants, and individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.
Doctors can address weathering in a variety of ways, ...

IN THE PAST, patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who harbored a specific KRAS mutation called G12C had few treatment options after chemotherapy and immunotherapy stopped working.
But in May 2021, the FDA granted accelerated approval to sotorasib (Lumakras), a targeted therapy for adult patients with advanced NSCLC who have received at least 1 prior systemic therapy.1 Considered a breakthrough in the fight against NSCLC, this approval also paved the way for the FDA to approve a se...

When Shawn* received a diagnosis of a neuroendocrine tumor in September 2022, he never imagined that just a year later, he would also be told he has diabetes.
“My doctors believe the immunotherapy I was receiving may have induced the diabetes,” says Shawn. “I’m currently successfully managing my diabetes with the help of an insulin pump.”
Although rare, Shawn’s dual diagnoses have been documented in other patients who undergo immunotherapy, which rarely cause the immune system to turn on cert...