The Mediterranean diet – a diet that particularly stresses olive oil, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds – has a huge and impressive pedigree for linkage to lower risks of a huge number of health problems, especially cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes (T2DM). But just in case you needed another prompt in the direction […]
Disclaimer here: I have had 3 cartilage “repair” procedures although to be fair, they didn’t actually repair anything, they just remove the damaged tissue. To the credit of my very excellent surgeons whom I might need once again some day, so I really don’t want to throw shade their way, I quickly have to add […]
In a new study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers from (you guessed right), the Mayo Clinic analyzed data from over 14,500 children in their clinic’s data base. And since this is an American study, a country in which doctors are – my editorial insert here – way more prone to dispense antibiotics (in fact, […]
So this new study in PLOS One started with the observation that the medical use of radiation investigational techniques (Xrays, and especially CT scans) have increased significantly over the last couple of decades. And so has the rate of some kinds of testicular cancer in young men. So, these researchers, wondered, could there be a […]
This morning, the drug company Moderna released early data on their COVID vaccine candidate, and the news is even slightly better than the good news that Pfizer had released last week about its vaccine. Moderna’s vaccine had a protection rate of roughly 95 % among the trial participants. And even better, I think, Moderna claims […]
According to a just-released study from the (US) NIH, what these people call “cynical hostility”, is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, although if you pardon my cynicism, most of us already knew that so why waste our time by doing a new study to tell us that again? Sounds like fake news to me. […]
According to a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health , tinnitus may be worsened by COVID-19 or tinnitus may even be triggered by a new infection. Why? Well, of course, no one really knows yet how this virus acts on the neurological system, just that it seems to affect every single nerve. […]
And before I suck you in any more, that headline actually means that the trick in seeing any benefit from taking regular doses of multivitamins is primarily in your head. Actually, for most of us, it’s all in our heads. As far as I can gather, there has never been a good study to show […]
OK. It’s a start. But until we know lots more, it’s just that. First of all, be a bit wary that these numbers won’t hold up. This press report – not yet published – claims that the vaccine was over 90 % protective, which just means that of the total of 94 people enrolled in […]
If you’re one of the small but exceedingly vocal minority who is still very stubbornly refusing to wear a mask in public – despite dozens of studies backing the use of masks to minimize transmission of coronavirus among people – maybe this will convince one or two of you to reconsider your very selfish choice. […]