Monkeypox in the Workplace: Key Considerations for Employers

Monkeypox in the Workplace: Key Considerations for Employers

Employers should consider updating their current pandemic safety policies to include information about monkeypox, including how the virus is spread and its symptoms. What is Monkeypox? Monkeypox is a viral infection that presents with flu-like symptoms, swelling of...
Monkeypox FAQs

Monkeypox FAQs

The ongoing outbreak of monkeypox, a viral disease spread through close personal contact, has raised many questions. Our health system is a key partner in responding to the outbreak, and we are committed to providing the answers as they become clear. Katie Taylor, MD,...
Tips to Support Children’s Mental Health

Tips to Support Children’s Mental Health

Parents play a critical role in supporting their children’s emotional and mental development, including helping them process and cope with big feelings. This school year marks the third disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and although we’re all finding new normal...
What to Do Next When You Test Positive for COVID-19

What to Do Next When You Test Positive for COVID-19

When you get a positive COVID-19 test, you need to know your next steps and how to feel better. A positive test confirms you have COVID-19 and may be able to spread it to others. Rebecca Curran, MD, PhD, family medicine doctor and epidemiologist with Lourdes Physician...
Answers to FAQs About the Omicron Variant of COVID-19

Answers to FAQs About the Omicron Variant of COVID-19

Here we are again, facing a fifth surge of COVID-19. We all have questions about the COVID-19 Omicron variant. Katie Taylor, MD, medical director of infection prevention at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and assistant professor of clinical medicine at...