No good study has ever found a decent benefit from the drug hydroxycholoquine – even the Orange blowhard in the White House who has hyped this drug beyond all belief did not take HCQ for the treatment of his infection when he got sick. Yet hydroxycholoquine continues to be pushed in some quarters so this […]
According to the claims of a new study from Penn State dried fruit “may be connected” with better health. According to this study based on data from over 25,000 participants in the (US) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a survey that provides tons of ongoing fascinating information, although people who consumed dried fruits regularly […]
Dogs were not very prominent in immigrant Canadian families after the 2nd World War. And for a good reason, I suppose: They had enough on their plates worrying about providing enough food for the kids without having to worry about feeding another animal in the home (and yes, some of us kids ate like animals; […]
For some reason, statin drugs, which reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, and even death from heart disease by (this varies, of course, by other risk factors) up to 25-35 per cent , draw and intense amount of negative discussion on the internet. There are lots of reasons for that – you can start […]
This morning, AstraZeneca PLC and the University of Oxford added their promising results from their vaccine candidate to the two shots that have shown good results against Covid-19. Depending on how negatively you can parse the data – and trust me, the experts will dissect, parse, boil the data till the cows come home, and […]
According to a new study published in the journal BMC Medicine that analyzed data from over 50,000 people in the long-ongoing (and excellent) EPIC-Oxford study , compared to people who eat meat and fish, “vegans with lower calcium and protein intake . . . had a higher risk of fractures anywhere in the body” which includes, […]
This will surprise absolutely no one: In a large study published in the BMC Medicine journal by Australian researchers who analyzed data from 85,000 people looking at the impact of lifestyle on depression, they concluded that unsurprisingly, regular physical activity, a healthy diet and getting enough sleep every night (between seven and nine hours) was linked to […]
Probably shouldn’t be a surprise for a country where 72,000,000 people voted for an incompetent, care-nothing-for-others racist and bully, but according to a new poll from the USA, a country which by any measure has done more poorly than any other country in controlling the costs from COVID (and I’d add, it’s done more poorly […]
Fish oil supplements have become the darlings (along with vitamin D) of the gotta-take-something crowd for the prevention of heart disease. And yes, a study from a little while back did show a possible slightly positive effect from prescription-strength fish oil supplements for the prevention of some types of heart disease. So it should be […]
So we all know, of course, that young kids seem to have a lower risk of picking up COVID and an even lower risk of becoming severely affected should they manage to get infected in the first place. No one knows why his is true although the bulk of attention has been paid, I think, […]