Dr. Jason Kendler | Women's Voices For Change

Dr. Jason Kendler Jason S. Kendler, M.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is a gradulate of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his post-graduate training at the New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he served as Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Kendler is now Course Director for Medicine, Patients and Society 2, a course for second year medical students at the Weill Cornell Medical College. He maintains an active practice in Internal Medicine in Manhattan and has a special interest in travel medicine.

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August: National Immunization Awareness Month

By Dr. Jason Kendler

August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Each of us, as adults, should have an immunization card, created by our primary health care provider. This week, Dr. Pat turns for expertise to a member of Women’s Voices’ Medical Advisory Board, Jason S. Kendler, M.D., a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University to discuss infectious diseases and the vaccines needed to combat them.

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Antibiotic Resistance: Causes and Consequences

By Dr. Jason Kendler

Bronchitis and sinusitis are usually viral infections, so antibiotics (which work only on bacterial infections) should generally not be prescribed to treat them.

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Dr. Pat Consults: The Flu Shot—Questions from a Skeptic

By Dr. Jason Kendler

"Jennie, this is definitely not the year you should avoid the flu vaccine, and I will tell you why. But before I do, I want to remind you of the terrible symptoms that patients with the flu can experience. . ."

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Dr. Pat Consults: The Ebola Epidemic—Fear of Flying to Africa

By Dr. Jason Kendler

Unlike viruses such as influenza (the flu), the Ebola virus is generally not spread from person to person in the air. Because of this, traveling on an airplane with someone with the Ebola virus would NOT put you at risk, unless there is some DIRECT PHYSICAL CONTACT with his or her bodily fluids.

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Dr. Pat Consults: Hepatitis C—Causes, Transmission, Treatment, Vaccines

By Dr. Jason Kendler

I was told that I had hepatitis C. The bad news is that my liver has been badly damaged, and if I had been tested years ago I could have been treated with drugs, which might have prevented the serious liver problem I have now.

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Everything a Woman Over 40 Should Know About Vaccines

By Dr. Jason Kendler

By Jason Kendler, M.D.

Long before vaccines existed, Benjamin Franklin said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This statement has as much validity now as it did then.