Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine where he is also the Co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics. He is also University Professor at Baylor University, Fellow in Disease and Poverty at the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Senior Fellow...

Anal rectal disease symptoms are often ignored by patients who may just live with them and by physicians who may not be terribly well trained in this area. Anorectal disease is very common and includes diagnoses such as hemorrhoids, anal fissures or tears, itching which can be severe or persistent, rectal bleeding, anal warts and even anal cancer which is not the same as colon cancer. Autoimmune disease such as crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis may present in the anorectum. Rectal...

In today's epidemic of obesity and the easy availability of fast foods it is difficult to find healthy food. This podcast looks into how you can make the best of it by ordering the best choices you can make to keep your diet reasonably healthy. We speak with Courtney Ford who is an experienced dietitian who helps guide us through the maze of choice is to make sensible decisions for our health. I think you'll find this very useful in your day-to-day decision-making on what you put inside your...

This podcast discusses infection of the stomach from a common bug that can lead to ulcer disease, lymphoma and stomach cancer. The bug is called Helicobacter pylori. Dr. David Graham wrote the book on H. pylori and is the world's foremost authority on this bug what it can do, how to find it and reliably eradicate it. He will also discuss who is at increased risk of getting this infection. He is the inventor of the breath test that can reliably and noninvasively diagnose the infection. Dr....

Hemorrhoid disease is extremely common with more than half of Americans over the age of 50 having symptoms from hemorrhoids. It is easily treated non-surgically when it is not ignored. Sometimes more serious disease is missed because hemorrhoids are assumed to be present. This podcast will talk about the common presentations of hemorrhoids and include less common and sometimes serious disease that might be confused with hemorrhoids.