In the latest issue of Science which is just out, the authors argue that “a COVID-19 commission must be created by the U.S. government” in order to investigate a host of issues coming out of the pandemic including: “stabilizing public health agencies, examining earlier outbreaks, reviewing pandemic preparedness, and evaluating the United States’ responses to COVID-19”. […]
Like housework, for example. So, according to new research recently published in the open access journal BMJ Open, “housework is linked to sharper memory, attention span, and better leg strength, and by extension, greater protection against falls, in older adults,” which seems to me, an elderly man, is better than hitting the trifecta at the track, […]
Because your brain likes physical activity. According to new research on 167 elderly people which was just published in JNeurosci, “physical activity improves brain health, particularly in Alzheimer’s disease.” Physical activity had a pronounced effect on a marker for brain inflammation, and even better for those of us who love to walk, the greater the brain […]
Or more accurately, a less-brainer. A study recently published in the journal, Neurology, has concluded (quite nicely, if you ask me) that the more “pro-inflammatory” food you consume, the higher your eventual risk of dementia. Or to put it the way the researchers prefer, “A diet with a more anti-inflammatory content seems to be related […]
One recent report (here) and one recent study, both about data on Americans (although as nearly always, what applies to Americans applies to us here in Canada as well), indicate quite starkly that rates of colo-rectal cancer, the 2nd leading cause of cancer death in North America, are rising sharply in nearly all populations, but […]
The argument for boosters for everyone gets stronger by the week as data about boosters, which were only initiated a few weeks ago in a few countries, has started coming in. Two studies: Here and here argue quite strongly about the short-to-medium term benefit of boosters, particularly, of course, in the most at-risk populations but […]
A post of mine from a couple of days ago reported that people who expect side effects from coronavirus vaccines are much more likely to complain of side effects post-vax than people who don’t expect them. Pretty easy to understand and accept. So, no surprise, I think, that another study from France found that when […]
Like this one that has just been published in European Heart Journal – Digital Health. In this study that included data on 88,026 individuals (average age: 61, over half were women, or to use jargon from the Lancet, under half were bodies without a vagina, so I guess that just over half did have a vagina) […]
In new data on nearly 26,000 adults who were enrolled in a randomized trial that was looking at the benefits f – or lack – of taking vitamin D and omega-3 supplements (the latter are commonly called fish oils, although omega-3 is much more than just fish oil) on the eventual risk of developing cancer […]
Here’s a shocker: People who expect side effects from a coronavirus vaccine are more at risk of suffering side effects than people who don’t expect them. At least that’s according to a small study (551 unvaccinated U.S. adults) from the University of Tulsa which was just published in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics. in which the […]