What if someone told you that with just a few drops of blood from a finger prick they could detect a range of illnesses, from diabetes to cancer? Would you be inclined to opt for this diagnostic tool rather than having to submit to having a phlebotomist extract blood from your arm? And if it […]
By Kristen Fischer Experts continue to encourage people to eat well and exercise during the Covid-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, reports claiming that supplements can prevent or treat Covid-19 have emerged. Health experts warn that relying on supplements — and taking too much of them — may do more harm than good. Still, vitamin C, D, probiotics, […]
He was headed past the cloisters of the Governor’s Building next to Parque Calderon when I encountered the tiny boy. Or, was he “headed” at all, I began to wonder, as those red shoe soles tapped hurriedly up and down on the dirty, rust-colored tiles. There certainly was no mamá or papá in sight, no […]
By Louis Bourgeois I am being called this morning to begin writing in earnest, as we collectively “cocoon” around the world. In my writing as Sun King, I speak from a “place” that I call the energy body. I encourage any who are reading this post to accept that we have three aspects of our […]
Researchers testing the head lice drug Ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19 have seen promising results in lab studies. But the research is in its early stages and the drug is yet to be tested on people with COVID-19. There’s so much we don’t know, including the right dose and delivery method for people with coronavirus […]
By Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D. The hospitals are eerily quiet, except for Covid-19. I have heard this sentiment from fellow doctors across the United States and in many other countries. We are all asking: Where are all the patients with heart attacks and stroke? They are missing from our hospitals. Yale New Haven Hospital, where I […]
By Terry Spry, Jr Dr. Jeffrey VanWingen, a family physician from Michigan, posted a video to YouTube regarding safe grocery shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic. The video got more than 20 million views in just a week. He suggested things like limiting your time in the grocery store, leaving groceries on the garage or porch rather […]
By Jeremiah Reardon My friend Ramon’s wrists are secured to a side rail of his critical care bed. Perspiration trickles from his forehead to straining eyes which roll upward. I wipe his brow and hold a hand. I’m alarmed at his condition on my first visit to the hospital and pray for his recovery. A […]
By Giovanni Cambizaca We are all doing well out here in San Miguel, and I hope the same is true for you and that you are managing to put a life together under our new circumstances. Since we are all at home and have a lot more time on our hands than we ever expected, […]
By Carolyn Kormann For thousands of years, a parasite with no name lived happily among horseshoe bats in southern China. The bats had evolved to the point that they did not notice; they went about their nightly flights unbothered. One day, the parasite — an ancestor of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 — had an opportunity to […]
By Rae Ellen Bichell We’re all social distancing these days, and it’s unclear when exactly that will end. But Billy Barr has been doing this for almost 50 years. He’s the only full-time resident of Gothic, Colo. “I’m the mayor and chief of police,” he said. “I hold elections every year, but I don’t tell anybody […]
Facing stiff criticism, the U.S. Treasury Department changed course late Wednesday and announced that Social Security beneficiaries and other Americans who haven’t filed income taxes for the past two years won’t have to take any extra steps to receive one-time checks of up to $1,200 under a new economic recovery program. “Social Security recipients who are not typically […]
By Molly Wood At a moment when you would strongly prefer it to stay healthy, the U.S. office of Health and Human Services was the target of a cyberattack. Reports say the agency’s servers were hit this week with what’s known as a distributed denial of service attack, where hackers overwhelm the system with millions of […]
Daniela and Ramiro opened their office here in October of 2018 and have quickly been gaining the trust and respect of many of Cuenca’s expats. They are part of a larger company called Megabrokers out of Quito and have recently become the exclusive providers of BMI medical insurance plans for the expat market here in Cuenca.Continue reading
Ecuador is famous for its vibrant woven textiles, especially from alpaca wool, which has an exquisite texture that gives extra lightness and warmth. The alpacas from the Chimborazo region are known as the ‘Ladies of Chimborazo’ for their especially soft fur and elegance, and the textiles made by indigenous artisans in Otavalo and other areas throughout the Andes are world-renown. Continue reading
