What kind of sick? Symptoms, treatment differ among cold, flu, bacterial infection - Commercial Appeal

Published: January 23, 2012
by Dr. Manoj Jain

On a Friday afternoon last month, Niti Mehta, a second-grade teacher at Shady Grove Elementary, began to "shake like a leaf."

A week earlier, she had the sniffles and nasal congestion, but no fever or shivering. Read More

Test pattern: Doctors rethink paradigm for cancer screening - Commercial Appeal Article

Published: January 22, 2012
by Dr. Manoj Jain

Some years before his retirement, when my father-in-law went in for his routine physical, his doctor ordered a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, along with a cholesterol test and blood count. My father-in-law was not having any symptoms, and no one in his family had a history of prostate cancer. Read More