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It’s truly a fall gale of epic proportions, as turbulent winds of uncertainty pummel us from one high anxiety to another. “It’s the pandemic, it’s the social unrest, it’s climate change and the wildfires. It’s the election, it’s upcoming holidays, said Vaile Wright,...
Ecuador Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos reports that the number of new Covid-19 cases has declined significantly since early September. “We are very encouraged by the numbers and expect continued improvement in the pandemic situation,” he said Thursday. “In...
By Geoff Brumfiel Two new peer-reviewed studies are showing a sharp drop in mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The drop is seen in all groups, including older patients and those with underlying conditions, suggesting that physicians are getting better at...
By Andrea Kane Many countries are not doing enough to decrease the common risk factors associated with chronic diseases, leaving populations vulnerable to health emergencies like the coronavirus pandemic -- that's one of the main messages emerging from the 2019 Global...
By Michaeleen Doucleff In case you were still procrastinating getting a flu shot this year, here's another reason to make it a priority. There's a chance the vaccine could offer some protection against Covid-19 itself, says virologist Robert Gallo, who directs the...
By Christina Farr For seven years, Dr. Ethan Weiss, a cardiologist at The University of California, San Francisco, has experimented with intermittent fasting. The health fad, which restricts eating to specific periods of time, hit the mainstream after a series of...
By Sandee LaMotte The proof is piling up: Many synthetic chemicals can harm your health and that of your children. Evidence has doubled in the last five years about the negative impact on our health of endocrine-disrupting chemicals in plastics, pesticides, flame...
By Jancee Dunn Dave Asprey, founder of the supplement company Bulletproof and one of the many Silicon Valley tech titans obsessed with lengthening their life spans, famously declared he wants to live beyond 180 years. That sounds, frankly, exhausting. Yet who wouldn’t...
By Dana Smith At the beginning of the pandemic in March, Jeffrey VanWingen, MD, a Michigan family physician, scared the bejeezus out of people and infuriated food scientists. During his 13-minute video, which went viral on YouTube and has been viewed over 26 million...
By Tessa Koumoundouros For many of us, weight loss -- with a goal to be healthier overall -- has proven notoriously hard. Factors outside our control, from genetics and reliance on certain medications, to time and money restraints, can make it even tougher. But...
The chief executive of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer has warned that not enough Covid-19 vaccines will be available for everyone in the world to be inoculated until the end of 2024 at the earliest. Adar Poonawalla, chief executive of the Serum Institute of...
Political polarization and online misinformation are threatening vaccination programs worldwide, with public trust volatile and varying widely between countries, according to a global vaccine confidence study. The study, which maps trends in vaccine confidence across...
A group of 12,000 doctors, scientists and public health experts delivered a simple message on Thursday: get a flu shot. As flu season approaches, health experts are stressing the need to get a flu shot more than ever. “If there’s ever a year that you need to get a flu...
By Peter Dockrill One of the most consumed drugs in the U.S. – and the most commonly taken analgesic worldwide – could be doing a lot more than simply taking the edge off your headache, new evidence suggests. Acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol, and sold widely...
By Malcolm Kendrick In February, U.S. Covid-19 guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus would be "akin to a severe flu" and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people -- or one in a thousand. Then, fatality rate predictions somehow became mixed up to make it look...
The announcement Tuesday by AstraZeneca that it had temporarily stopped Covid-19 vaccine trials due to illness to one or more participants could slow the availability of a safe vaccine to South American countries. Several countries in the region were part of...
By Veronique Greenwood Covid-19 patients who are 80 or older are hundreds of times more likely to die than those under 40. That’s partly because they are more likely to have underlying conditions — like diabetes and lung disease — that seem to make the body more...
By Michael Braga Operation Quack Hack, the U.S. government’s initiative to clamp down on fake coronavirus medications and cures, has exposed a health underground in America brimming with distrust not only of mainstream medicine but the government itself. It’s a Tea...
By Malcolm Kendrick The release of previously repressed studies shows that if you substitute saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats, this increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. My fellow doctors need to accept the evidence. Whilst we are in the middle of the...
By Emma Reynolds Susan Bailey, a 57-year-old retired nurse from Florida, has had all her jabs and gets a flu shot every year. She's a vocal Joe Biden supporter -- and one of a growing number of people globally who say they wouldn't take a coronavirus vaccine even if...
