Susan Burke March
According to UNICEF, poor vaccination coverage and large pockets of unvaccinated children have resulted in devastating measles outbreaks in many parts of the world – including in countries that had […]
Susan’s note: This is the third in a multi-part series on fats — In Part I I wrote about trans fats, or hydrogenated fats, and how they transformed the processed […]
Susan’s note: As reported in the journal Endocrine Reviews, the treatment of obesity continues to be a major challenge. Obesity is now pandemic in the United States as well as […]
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that women who use permanent hair dye and chemical hair straighteners have a higher risk of developing breast cancer than women who […]
“Chiropractors won’t solve your problem,” says MagniSole. The problem is back pain, which experts say as much as 80 percent of the population will experience at some point in their lives. (Thanks, experts!) And […]
According to the Ministerio de Salud Publica (Ministry of Public Health) all of Ecuador’s 24 provinces are ready for the flu season, and from now until February 28, 2020, is […]
A favorite expat online forum carried a post with a simple query: “Do we need proof of current yellow fever and typhoid vaccinations to enter Ecuador from Colombia?” (No). This […]
By Elizabeth Kiefer What does it mean to sit like a man? If you live in a city with a subway, your mind might leap to the scourge of “manspreading,” in […]
The National Institutes of Health: News In Health November 2019 Have you ever had to get an X-ray, MRI, or other medical scan? Do you know what these tests involve? […]
By Susan Burke March Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed a big improvement in El Centro. The city government has sponsored a number of ‘mingas’ in recent […]
Dairy milk sales are down, but sales of plant “milk alternatives” are growing. There’s an ongoing fight in the U.S. for the right to call plant-based milk substitutes ‘milk’ with […]
By Erin Brodwin for Business Insider After 39 deaths and more than 2,000 cases of vaping-related lung illness, officials have homed in on a potential cause. Investigators said vitamin E […]


















