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Yesterday, the first case in the United States was documented in Massachusetts. There have been seven suspected cases in Montreal, Canada. There were seven confirmed and one probable case of monkeypox in the United Kingdom and eight patients in Spain and Portugal. In the UK, the four cases were among men who have sex with…
I have talked about the benefits of intermittent fasting and the resulting reversal of cardiovascular risk factors like hypertension, diabetes, and hypertriglyceridemia. The past several months have shown unrelenting food price increases. This resulted from the war in Ukraine, the hyperinflationary policies of the US Federal Reserve, the culling of millions of poultry due to…
Neuropathy is a problem with nerve endings. The most common causes are diabetes and chemotherapy. We refer to the nerves supplying the upper and lower extremities when we talk of neuropathy in general, which is why it is also called peripheral neuropathy. Neuropathy can lead to other complications like gangrene, limb amputations, falls, persistent discomfort,…
Fetal microchimerism is when the fetal cells travel outside the fetus and embed in the mother’s body during pregnancy. Those fetal cells can stay with the mother for decades and affect her health. The Chimera is a Greek mythological creature with parts taken from different animals. The Benefits to the Baby The fetus has a…
A study from MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, Israel National Emergency Services, and Ben Gurion University showed a 25% increase in cardiac arrest and acute coronary syndrome calls since the COVID vaccines were started. [1] The authors defined Cardiac Arrest (CA) as a sudden electrical malfunction of the heart of presumed cardiac or medical etiology,…
Vaccines modify the immune system. Those changes may protect or increase the risk of acquiring unrelated infections. Also, the body’s response to immune diseases is altered. A good example is the effect of the anti-tuberculosis vaccine, Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine. Neonates who received BCG have a lower mortality rate. Is this the same for the COVID-19…
The FLCCC Weekly Webinar on April 13, 2022, featured Dr. Jackie Stone, who talked about her use of silver for COVID-19. She spoke of her experience with silver nanoparticles for COVID-19 at 24:58 here. What is the science behind colloidal silver against infections? A study published in the journal Antibiotics showed that colloidal silver is…
Today, I attended the University of Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences graduation for their medical students. At the end of the ceremony, the new physicians recited the Charge of Maimonides. I find it touching and reproduced it here. Charge of Maimonides “May the Almighty, source of Mercy, be with you in all…
The CDC confirmed that a Colorado man has tested positive for the H5N1 influenza virus. The man is a worker on a poultry farm and resides in a state correctional facility. He complains of fatigue and is taking oseltamivir (Tamiflu). Repeat tests on the person were negative for influenza. That may indicate that the highly…
The esteemed New England Journal of Medicine published an ivermectin study, Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin among Patients with Covid-19 in March 2022. The second paragraph of the abstract lays out the design of the study to make it sound like it is a well-made, unbiased, and a scientific study: METHODS We conducted a…
The Passion of the Lord from a medical point.
Update April 15, 2022: Originally published on December 21, 2022. The same study is now peer-reviewed and published in the journal Brain, COVID-19 vaccination and Guillain-Barré syndrome: analyses using the National Immunoglobulin Database. This post presents a study done by several government health agencies in the UK about the excess cases of Guillan Barré syndrome…
29 621 participants A higher cumulative morbidity burden in older adulthood was observed among those who were overweight (7.22 morbidity-years) and those with classes I and II obesity (9.80) compared with those with a normal BMI (6.10) in midlife (P < .001). Mean age at death was similar between those who were overweight (82.1 years…
A new study using Mendelian Randomization (MR) challenges previous recommendations that light alcohol consumption is good for the heart. The peer-reviewed study was published in the March 25 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Mendelian Randomization is a relatively new research tool that uses genes to establish cause and effect. Knowing what causes any condition like…
The study Associations between alcohol consumption and gray and white matter volumes in the UK Biobank shows that one unit of alcohol drunk a day can lead to loss of gray and white matter in the brain. It was published in Nature Communications in March 2022.[1] The research involved 36,678 generally healthy, middle-aged adults from the…
The data for this article is taken from the Pfizer document, 5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021. The pdf link is embedded in the title. In it are the adverse events that are listed in The Complete List of the Pfizer Adverse Events of Special Interest that…
I went to the CDC Wonder website to see if excess deaths are still present in 2022. February 2022 is still incomplete, so I compared only the month of January for each year from 2018 to 2022. Using the same month from 2018 to 2022 removes the seasonal variations in deaths. 2018 and 2019 are…
You may have heard that the famous movie star Bruse Willis has aphasia, and he will step away from making movies. I have seen a lot of aphasia. I worked in a comprehensive stroke center for many, many years in Buffalo, New York. What is aphasia? Aphasia is a neurologic deficit! That means a part…
This article explores how the triglyceride HDL ratio could revolutionize early intervention strategies, empowering individuals to take control of their health before serious conditions take hold.
Microplastics can be found in different body organs and affect human health. Microplastics in the placenta A study published in the journal Environmental International detected microplastics in the human placenta. Raman Microspectroscopy was used to examine six human placentas to evaluate microplastics. Twelve microplastic fragments (ranging from 5 to 10 μm in size) were found…