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As always, before starting to work with a new client, I ask them to first send back a fairly comprehensive medical and lifestyle (diet and activity) survey. Alice (not her real name) wrote that her goals were to lose weight and eat better — she wanted to feel better...
By Rebecca M. Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis Testosterone has a fascinating double life: A molecule with a precise chemical structure, it also has an outsize cultural presence, winning praise and blame for a wide range of characteristics typically associated with...
By Shirley Chan "Millions of Americans are taking medicines, generic drugs made in China and made with ingredients from China," said Rosemary Gibson. "We're so dependent, if China shuts its door on exports, after a number of months our pharmacy shelves would become...
By Ted Kyle Like a dog with a bone, Nina Teicholz is not ready to let it go. She has a point to make and a book to sell. It’s all about pushing everyone to eat a low-carb diet. No matter what the problem, we find her telling us that low-carb diets, with plenty of...
By Emily Weaver If you're a dog owner, you know it's one of the most rewarding experiences, but it comes with some rather large responsibilities, the most important being determining what food your four-legged friend should be ingesting. Between other duties...
Editor's Note: Marion Nestle, Ph.D (molecular biology), and emeritus professor of nutrition at New York University writes one of my favorite blogs, "Food Politics." In my recent column about immunity and vitamin D, I explained that it is necessary to obtain sufficient...
The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta We’ve talked a lot about the use of the antiviral drug remdesivir in very ill coronavirus patients. Now we know a bit more about the thinking of how it is suggested to be used, after researchers published the data that led the...
By Jann Bellamy NewsGuard, a company that evaluates and rates news and information websites, recently analyzed Facebook Pages and Twitter accounts to identify what it calls “super-spreaders” of COVID-19 misinformation, Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Joseph Mercola, and the...
As we gradually reopen businesses and the curfew is relaxed, it is not a time to relax our vigilance and safety measures that have allowed us to reduce the infection and death rate from Covid-19 — in Cuenca — and in those parts of the world that have taken measures to...
By Laura Andromalos I first met Myra on a Saturday afternoon just this past April. It’s likely we had crossed paths before but I had never recognized her. Initially, her presence was slightly unpleasant but subtle. Within a few hours, she was hard to ignore and full...
While much of the world’s attention is on battling the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now reached many countries in Africa, measles continues to silently kill large numbers of mostly children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic...
By ConsumerLab.com Yes, ultraviolet light in the "C" range, also known as UVC, has been shown to kill SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The big challenge with using UV-C light is being sure your UV lamp provides a large enough dose of UVC light to all the...
By Anya Kamenetz Nightmares. Tantrums. Regressions. Grief. Violent outbursts. Exaggerated fear of strangers. Even suicidal thoughts. In response to a call on social media, parents across the country shared with National Public Radio that the mental health of their...
Author's note: This is the second in a multi-part series on fats (updated) — in a recent column about trans fats, we see that in many, but not all countries, trans fats have been eliminated, due to their known health hazards — read Part I here. In Part III I'll...
Editor's note: Although the new U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Nutrition Facts Label changes were passed in 2016, implementation was delayed until January 1, 2020, for manufacturers with $10 million or more in annual food sales. Manufacturers with less than $10...
As reported in ContractPharma.com "According to a World Organization report MMR Vaccine Appears to Confer Strong Protection from COVID-19: Few Deaths from SARS-CoV-2 in Highly Vaccinated Populations, nearly all countries with few or no deaths from COVID-19 have also...
The first study to examine links between coffee brewing methods and risks of heart attacks and death has concluded that filtered brew is safest. The research is published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of...
By Janet Lee W hen you think about vitamins that are important for health, there’s one that might not come to mind but should. “Older adults — particularly older men — are the age group that consume the least amount of vitamin K,” says Sarah Booth, director of the...
By Regina Schaffer As researchers continue to assess complications of COVID-19, one striking difference has become clear — men who contract the novel coronavirus are more likely to be intubated or die compared with women. Animal model studies of the SARS virus suggest...
By Eamon Dreisbach Two randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials at Johns Hopkins Medicine aim to determine whether blood plasma will be effective as prophylaxis against COVID-19, a strategy that would be “enormously valuable” and has been efficacious against...
