by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 17, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Dr. Marissa Carter
Dr. Marissa Carter and I have published, “Counting the Cost of Cellular and/or Tissue-Based Products in Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Is There a Justifiable Price Limit per Square Centimeter?” now available in Advances in Wound Care. Recently I asked readers to predict what...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 7, 2024 | Dr. Marissa Carter, Fight the Good Fight
Check out the live interview that Dr. Marissa Carter and I did about why patients with chronic wounds are so sick! This project began a few years ago when I was testing the feasibility of a quality measure that could be reported by wound care practitioners as part of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 4, 2021 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
I had to get a COVID test to go to an in-person meeting and it’s obvious that the testing requirements for travel, meetings, etc. are a confused quagmire. Dr. Marissa Carter has posted an understandable overview of SARS-COVID testing on her blog that will be useful...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 6, 2021 | Dr. Marissa Carter
ACHM My Webinar: Hyperbaric Grand Rounds – Regulatory Updates in Hyperbaric Medicine Speaker: Helen Gelly, MD, FUHM, FACCWS, UHM/ABPM HyperbaRXs Marietta, GA Moderator: Tyler Sexton, MD, DMT, CHWS, MAPWCA Day/Date: Thursday, May 27th Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 26, 2021 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
An article by Ranjan and colleagues (not yet peer reviewed and available as a pre-print doi describes the grim reality of the second wave of COVID-19 in India. Every day the number of infected people doubles. The exponential increase suggests that the infection rate...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 10, 2021 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Dr. Carter has posted a new article on her site about the COVID pandemic. Her predictive models have consistently outperformed the ones the government favors (see the graphic above and then read her article). She always provides an unbiased scientific perspective, so...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 3, 2021 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Dr. Marissa Carter has posted a new blog on the SARS-COVID-2 outbreak in Brazil and its implications for the rest of us. While it’s possible that “Phase 1” of COVID will end in a couple of months, it’s possible that, thanks to these new variants, Phase 2 of the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 26, 2021 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
I am tired of COVID. I want to talk about something else, but every time I try, there’s some new bad news to discuss. Dr. Carter’s blogs on this site were so popular with all of you (even award-winning reporters called me about them), she started her own blog (and...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 5, 2021 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Here is a new and disheartening post from Dr. Marissa Carter about the new COVID-19 variant (see her previous posts about COVID-19). –Caroline The new SARS-Cov2 b117 variant is worse than we thought. Not only is it more infectious, but infections are associated...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Here I am, getting the first dose of the Moderna COVID vaccine. In future posts I’ll provide more information about the trial data (courtesy of Dr. Carter) and any other information I get my hands on that might be useful. What I hope is happening right now is that my...
