
While I love spreading the Gospel and the comfort of good food, I know I also can spread the news of good health.
While I’m passionate about my faith and my kitchen, what I do for a living is something I’m equally passionate about. Graduating from the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy in 2022, my goal is to spread helpful public health information and help people understand how to manage their medications and health.
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The Skinny on GLP-1s
We’ve made it to 2026 and everyone has made their New Year’s Resolutions. After eating cheat meals for every meal for the last 2 months, most of these resolutions circle around weight loss. Over the years, gyms have started to offer discounts at New Year’s in anticipation of the “January Surge” that sees a 33-50%…
“Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism” IS An Evidence-Based Claim
In November, the Centers for Disease Control changed their website to include language that contradicted decades of growing evidence. An addendum was added to the states “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism” and “Studies supporting a…
Fake News: Dispelling 6 Common Myths The Public Believes About Infectious Diseases
By Jacob Osborne, PharmD, Infectious Diseases Pharmacist Infectious Diseases and the practice medicine have been revolutionized in the last 100 years: from the discovery of penicillin in 1928, to the development of a mass-produced polio vaccine in 1954, to the approval of zidovudine to treat HIV at the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1987.…
How Tuberclosis Caused a Vampire Panic and Created Dracula
By Jacob Osborne, Infectious Diseases Pharmacist and Lead Contributor Introduction Vampires have captured the fear and fascination of the public for centuries. From Dracula to Twilight, some of the most popular stories ever told have plots revolving around the undead blood-suckers. Surprisingly, the idea of vampirism predates the legendary 1897 fictional work of Bram Stoker. …
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