Not just because it’s nearly Rosh Hashana (my God, it’s early this year) and Labour Day and Thanksgiving (for Canadians, anyway), but because those markers also mean that flu season is soon gonna arrive. So make sure to set aside time this fall to get a flu shot even if you’ve never got one before. […]
Study after study after study after study (enough?) has found that with a few small exceptions (pregnancy, for one) people who drink moderate amounts (even large amounts) of coffee regularly have better health outcomes than people who don’t drink coffee. So no surprise that yet another study, this one just presented at a European Society […]
Your blood pressure at bay. Catchy, right? According to new research just published in the journal, Hypertension, flavonoid-rich foods, including berries, apples, pears and wine, may have a positive effect on blood pressure levels. In this study of over 900 German adults between the ages of 25 and 82, those study participants who had the highest […]
Well-researched analyses of the data have shown quite clearly that ivermectin, an animal de-worming medication, does not work against Covid infections. Yet, because of wide sharing of social media items extolling the benefits of ivermectin to those wanting to believe, the drug has achieved near-mythical status among some parts of the population, which is why, […]
The worry for people with an AID during this coronavirus pandemic is that an AID will raise the risk of bad outcomes with a Covid infection for two reasons. First, there is the simple fact that an AID indicates a faulty immune system. Second, the meds used to treat AIDs often interfere with immunity as […]
That is spread by aerosols, that is. In fact, it’s likely that many if not most respiratory-linked viruses are indeed spread via aerosols. The long list of probables includes SARS-CoV (the original SARS virus back from 2003), MERS-CoV (the Middle East cousin of SARS), influenza, measles, and all the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold […]
Great – it’s good for you, good for the planet. But you have to be careful, especially since way way way too many drivers are still not bicycle-aware. A new study underlines one of the risks for cycling, the one to the back. In this study that compared the rate of back injuries among many […]
A study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine claims that there’s a good chance to find a universal coronavirus vaccine, that is, a vaccine that would act against all possible iterations of coronaviruses, meaning, of course, that we maybe wouldn’t ever again have to go through the trauma of the last couple […]
This week, the USPSTF, a group that meets regularly to review guidelines about disease prevention, has recommended that screening for Type 2 diabetes now begin at age 35 instead of age 40, which was actually an increase to an older recommendation to screen for T2DM at age 45. Why the ever-lower age recommendation? Very simply: […]
Every overweight person knows this (I was overweight most of my life so I’m in on this secret): Just exercising more doesn’t seem to help you lose much weight. Which is why this new study published in Current Biology makes so much sense. By analyzing data on 1,750 adults, these researchers found that if you’re obese (although […]