In a terrific article in the New York Times, Dr. Aaron E. Carroll, who is an American pediatrician and a regular contributor to those pages, makes a compelling argument about why so much obesity research is not worth the time, effort, or money put into it. It’s a damning critique that can be applied to […]
Happens over and over again: A study comes out that analyzes how well a drug is controlling some health problem in the real world, that is, how the drug is doing based on what real patients are doing with it, and the results are invariably disappointing. That is, the post-marketing drug review (which is rarely […]
There’s a study that came out this week that largely seems to have got lost amid all the simultaneous news about that still-mysterious but unarguably potentially devastating corona virus doing god alone knows what in China, which brings me to this question: Has any rigid regime run by old men – as are nearly all […]
Just because we can all use a bit of good news about this outbreak in China, here’s a report from Medical Express, about 3 groups of researchers that are already working on a vaccine for this new coronavirus. So according to Richard Hatchett, chief executive of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) who addressed […]
You know, of course, that the vaping industry is fervently pushing back against efforts to limit the sales of e-cigs with the hard-to-argue-about claim that vaping may not be great but at least hey, it helps people quit smoking real cigarettes, which is something we all want to do more of, right? Well, that argument […]
Another day and no real change in terms of what we know about the virus itself, just a real change about what we know about how the Chinese health authorities have begun to deal with it, and as you would likely have predicted, they are dealing with it with a pretty heavy hand. According to […]
Although it may be impossible to do because the news is changing so rapidly about this virus, I will, however try to do frequent updates to let you all know what’s happening as far as we can tell. So, just to let you know, I’ve been reading about this virus for weeks, ever since the […]
A bigger brain is not necessarily a better brain. At least not a better-functioning brain in terms of memory (and certain other cognitive functions). At least, that’s the the conclusion of a recent study from Michigan State University in which researchers used MRIs to analyze two aspects of the brain, the size of the hippocampus […]
According to a just-released American poll, 86 % of parents claim that teens spend too much time gaming. And needless to add, that according to the parents, this heavy use of gaming has significant negative consequences for those teens’ well-being. So that again according to the parents “gaming often gets in the way of other […]
A review just published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology has some pretty bad news for those people who think marijuana (and its off-products) is something that confers only benefits, not downsides, a belief that. seems to me, way too many marijuana (and CBD) users seem to believe, because, well, because that’s […]