Author Archives: Dr. Shannon Weeks

Give Me Fever

“Give me a fever, and I can cure any disease.” Hippocrates “When a treatment is ineffective, its risks — if not zero — always will exceed its benefits.”  Dr. Michael Shannon,  Children’s Hospital Boston pediatrician and Harvard Medical School professor. I recently came across an article on a very popular health site and was struck…

The Mighty Demodex

I was researching rosacea and acne treatments recently, and I came across some very compelling research done mostly in China by Dr. Zhao Zhongzhou, linking rosacea and acne to a microscopic mite called demodex.  So I started taking sebum samples from patients who were suffering from rosacea and acne and I found that in most…