Natasha Abadilla

Jun 9, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Kara Wada |Natasha Abadilla |Taylor Christensen

In addition to a steep increase in prevalence, in recent decades, we have seen an evolution in the ways our immune system misbehaves: eosinophilic esophagitis, mast cell disorders, and early onset colon cancer, among many others. This data alone should remind us that we are an ever-evolving species. With our rapidly changing lifestyle over the last century, it shouldn’t be surprising that we are seeing some sort of physiologic hangover.

Mar 23, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Jackson J. McCue |Jacob Riegler |Heidi Chumley |Natasha Abadilla

As the COVID class, entering medical school in 2020, we have seen our fair share of paradigm-shifting moments in medicine. The pandemic and responseThe overturn of Roe v. WadeThe transition of Step 1 from scored, and largely dictative of what future specialty one can match into, to pass/failEven with that last transition, It still took me a couple of months of studying to consistently pass Step 1. Less than a year later, it took ChatGPT almost no time to pass the test.

Feb 3, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Wendy Schofer |Natasha Abadilla |Ellen Rand |Curtis G. Graham

My eyes fell upon a horrible newspaper headline from 2008: “Fat kids die earlier.” That is the first article that I remember talking about obesity in childhood, but there were plenty more in the early 2000s. At the time, I clipped it because it reinforced my approach at the time: identify issues, educate, act, and avoid. Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in the prevalence of children being diagnosed as overweight and obese. The jury is out on the specific reasons why.