Brighteon University is streaming an episode a day of “The Truth About Pet Cancer” from March 21 to 27, and a replay of all seven episodes on March 28 to 30. Register here to join pet parents who believe their furry family members deserve a fighting chance against sickness and cancer. On Day 5, […]
Story at-a-glance The heart attack that seems to come out of nowhere almost never does. Cardiovascular disease — encompassing heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure — builds silently over years, and the evidence was almost always there, waiting to be noticed. It’s marked by blocked blood flow to your heart […]
Vanity can make people do stupid things. Want to look better in a bathing suit? Great goal, now with a small potential wrinkle: the treatment your doctor prescribes might be so good you won’t see your fat anymore, because that treatment made you go blind. This latest dispatch from the […]
Story at-a-glance Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) continues to puzzle medical practitioners. To date, it’s estimated that around 3.3 million Americans have this condition. However, this number may not be completely accurate because CFS symptoms overlap with dozens of other conditions, making it difficult to formally diagnose. To make matters worse, […]
The sound I remember most from the early days of Covid-19 is not the alarms. It was the silence between them. Intensive care units became Covid wards. Monitors glowed in dark rooms while ventilators pushed air into failing lungs. Nurses, shrouded in protective gear, moved quietly. Families were absent—barred from […]
President Donald Trump’s executive order of Feb. 18 invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950 to ensure US glyphosate production and availability is neither necessary nor helpful. HHS Secretary and Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) founder Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s endorsement of the order has created a firestorm in that […]
Story at-a-glance What if the reason you can’t shake your anxiety has nothing to do with your mind and everything to do with what happens to your airway at 2 a.m.? In obstructive sleep apnea, the soft tissue in your throat relaxes too much during sleep and sags inward, partially […]
The Elixir of Ancient Wisdom: Nature’s Answer to Modern Cognitive Decline As the specter of age-related cognitive decline looms over an aging population, the conventional medical establishment offers little beyond symptom management and despair. While Big Pharma churns out expensive, side-effect-laden drugs for dementia, they consistently fail to address the […]
Story at-a-glance Every year, more than 795,000 people in the United States have a stroke,1 and for many, recovery involves far more than regaining movement or strength. Communication is frequently affected as well. In some cases, stroke survivors still hear voices clearly, yet following a conversation becomes harder, as though the […]
In my epidemiology coursework, many years ago, I was taught that the smallpox vaccine had eradicated that dreadful disease. It was common knowledge, so I did not question the claim. They did not tell me about favorable time trends in the natural course of other infectious diseases for which there was no […]