Most people tend to assume that there’s very little they can do to reduce their risks for specific auto-immune disorders (AIDs) such as lupus because so much of that risk is said to be driven by genes. Which, according to a recent study, is not as true as it would seem. In yet another update […]
Listen up, especially if you’re one of the millions of people who has lost some of your hearing function, and especially, if, like millions of you with proven hearing loss, especially those of you of the male persuasion, you adamantly deny that you can’t hear as well as you think you do: Your hearing loss, […]
Five? Six? Trick question cuz the number is actually unlimited as of now. So, just to keep you awake in case you’re finally getting over your fear of the Delta variant, you should know that as of this week, the WHO is following the direction of: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta (3 lineages – meaning that […]
New research reported at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference should be very sobering news for anyone who doesn’t feel it’s worth getting vaccinated with one of the coronavirus vaccines that are so easily obtained these days. In this study, the researchers “found associations between COVID-19 and persistent cognitive deficits, including the acceleration of Alzheimer’s disease pathology […]
According to a recent poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 35% of the unvaccinated in the US said they’re unlikely to get vaccinated and 45% say they definitely won’t get vaccinated, indicating once gain 2 main lessons that have come about during this pandemic. Most troubling, if these people stick to their guns […]
Yet another study, this one published in the open access journal BMC Medicine has concluded that people who drink moderate amounts of alcohol regularly tend to live longer than people who don’t, in large part because moderate alcohol consumption tends to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease and hence deaths from heart attacks and strokes. In […]
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. […]