HEALTH
You Can’t Unsee This
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 […]
Almost Half of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Cases Are Caused by Ticks
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, […]
What Covid Policy Did to Doctors Who Refused to Stay Silent
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 […]
Who Needs Glyphosate?
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 […]
Large Study Connects Sleep Apnea Risk with Declining Mental Health
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 […]
Unlocking Cognitive Longevity: How High-Polyphenol Extra Virgin Olive Oil Supercharges Your Aging Brain
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 […]
The Impact of Stroke on Speech Comprehension
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 […]
Covid of the Past: Smallpox in Yugoslavia, 1972
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 […]
The Disturbing Truths about SSRi’s Antidepressants
There is an overprescription epidemic. SSRi’s antidepressants (Selective Serotonin Re-uptake inhibitors) are included in a list of drugs oversubscribed by doctors. SSRi’s are said to rank amongst the world’s most dangerous medications, known to have a wide-range of possible side-effects (effects). Some could mean serious illness. Side-effects from antidepressants such […]
271 Teenage Cardiac Reports Buried in a File Labeled “Garbage”
[The third author of this article is David Shuldman.] Two hundred and seventy-one. That is the number of serious cardiovascular events reported among adolescents in Israel’s national surveillance system in just a few weeks during mid-2021. This is the core finding of our study, published this week in the International Journal of […]
