Give them their inheritances while they’re still young. A very interesting 24-year-long American study that analyzed the lives of 5400 siblings and twin pairs has concluded that “those with greater wealth at midlife tended to live longer.” So . . . Just suggesting.
And that is that it’s sort of like my dad’s temper: The Delta variant blows up suddenly, and then seems to settle rather quickly after the blow-up, and of course, “rather quickly” is matter of opinion (but 2 months is sort of what I mean by “rather quickly”). So, in India, which for the longest […]
A new American-based research report published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute convened an expert panel to assess the medical information found in 200 of the most popular articles on social media related to cancer treatment, and the panel concluded that “one third of the most popular cancer treatment articles on social media contain […]
No doubt you’ve had just about enough with the messages about reducing your use of antibiotics because of the danger antibiotic overuse poses from the ease with which it promotes antibiotic resistance. But apparently, and this is a surprise, it’s not just overuse of antibiotics that promotes antibiotic resistance. Other drugs can do it, too. […]
According to a couple of wee studies presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (but which have not yet been published so beware of any potential implications), people who become infected with SARS-CoV-2 can often pass the virus to their pets, and the pets often get sick as well. Thus, for […]
Long-held standard medical advice has been that if you have any sort of risk of developing an irregular heart rhythm such as atrial fibrillation, for example, or indeed if you already have some sort of rhythm abnormality (in your heart rate, I mean, not like a rhythm irregularity in which you can’t dance), then you […]
Remember that old catchphrase “You are what you eat”? Well, if you don’t remember it, too bad for you cuz you are probably too young to also remember Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles, early Stones, early Neil Young, newly-minted Paul Simon (and Garfunkel), the wonderful perennial-champion Montreal Canadiens, Yoko Ono, and the Cuban Missile Crisis […]
According to new data from the (US) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, life expectancy for Americans fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since the second world war. And while other factors undoubtedly contributed to this fall in life expectancy, most notably the overuse of opioids, the CDC explained […]
One of the biggest long-term problems in this medical business is the firm belief by too many medical practitioners (and way too many non-medical people, too) that there’s a one-size-fits-all solution to everything. But the real world reveals that far too often, the best way to find out what’s right for you is to go […]
It’s certainly well established by now that compared to people who have no pre-existing illnesses, people with certain co-morbidities – meaning people who have other illnesses such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, certain rheumatic conditions, certain lung and kidney conditions, cancer, etc – are much more likely to get sick with COVID-19, to suffer […]