Health and Medicine

Canada’s health-care wait times hit 20 weeks in 2016—longest ever recorded By | November 23, 2016
Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2016
Surviving a Toxic World By | November 21, 2016
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Controversial drug approval stirs deep concerns — and hope By | November 19, 2016
Some families of the dozen boys involved in the clinical trial leading to the approval of Exondys, or eteplirsen, attest to the drug's effectiveness
Improving cryopreservation for a longer-lasting blood supply By | November 19, 2016
A new way to preserve blood could make blood-bank supplies last longer and potentially save more lives
Why Would I Ever Buy a Penny Stock? By | November 14, 2016
Eastgate Biotech Corp, Type 2 Diabetes, Oral Insulin pill
Cruising With Cardiologists to Alaska, and What I Learned By | November 9, 2016
I also believe there is enough scientific evidence to show that anyone taking CLDs should be taking CoQ10. It’s available at Health Food Stores
The Miracle Molecule NO By | October 30, 2016
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How protein fragments associated with Alzheimer’s could trigger Parkinson’s By | October 23, 2016
Alzheimer's-related protein fragments set off molecular changes associated with Parkinson's, according to a new in vitro study.
Tiny gold particles could be the key to developing a treatment for pancreatic cancer By | October 23, 2016
Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive, often fatal condition, but researchers are looking to gold nanoparticles to develop new treatments.
Mother’s Rx for Recurrent Urinary Infections By | October 17, 2016
Eastgate Biotech Corp, UTI E Drops
Why I’ve Never Forgotten a Japanese Girl By | October 10, 2016
Even expensive MRIs, designed to detect even minute spinal cord changes, are at times unable to diagnose the cause of pain
Report: Patient care is affected by doctors’ politics By | October 5, 2016
Democratic and Republican physicians provide different care on politicized health issues.
Snake venom composition could be related to hormones and diet By | October 4, 2016
Venom differences within a snake species can depend on age and sex
Feasting on the dead By | October 3, 2016
Gutted: Polypharmacy and the epidemic of suicide among post-9/11 veterans
20 suicides a day By | October 3, 2016
Gutted: Polypharmacy and the epidemic of suicide among post-9/11 veterans: Part 2
Losing Weight the Asinine Way By | October 3, 2016
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Smallest-reported artificial virus could help advance gene therapy By | September 25, 2016
A virus-like shell can deliver therapeutic genetic material to human cells in lab testing
Shedding light on the limits of the expanded genetic code By | September 21, 2016
Light can cause synthetic nucleosides to damage cells
Hillary Clinton: Did She Receive the Best RX? By | September 19, 2016
I take 10,000 milligrams of powdered C daily (available in health food stores) and can’t remember when I last had a cold
Ginger and chili peppers could work together to lower cancer risk By | September 15, 2016
The mouth-tingling combination of chili peppers and ginger helped stave off lung cancer in mice
E-cigs and Joe Camel: To the Washington elite, we’re all children By | September 15, 2016
Part 2: Today, politicians and bureaucrats and their media allies are attempting to do to e-cigs what they did to tobacco
The E-Cigarette Ban: A Win for Liars and Big Tobacco By | September 15, 2016
FDA: Assuming regulatory power over electronic cigarettes
If Clinton Becomes President Will Her Hair Turn Gray? By | September 12, 2016
What is it that makes our hair turn several shades of gray as we get older?
Waiting to Treat Prostate Cancer? By | September 9, 2016
Autopsies show that 50 percent of men over age 59 have prostate cancer
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Why Cancer Patients Will Suffer to Protect the Lives of Addicts By | August 22, 2016
It’s hard to believe that cancer patients with a few days to live are denied sufficient painkillers for fear of addiction. Today common sense has become an uncommon commodity
An Update on the Risks of Heartburn Drugs By | August 15, 2016
My advice is to avoid GERD by limiting calories, losing weight, stop smoking, limiting the use of painkillers, and starting a sound lifestyle
Detecting a new doping trend among Olympic athletes By | August 11, 2016
Olympians have lost medals over illegal steroid use, and now new tests could reveal another kind of cheating
Toward a diagnostic blood test for endometriosis By | August 11, 2016
Currently, diagnosing endometriosis requires surgery, but scientists are working toward a less invasive way
Questioning Medical Research Funding By | August 7, 2016
“In the acquisition of new knowledge, scientists are not guided by logic and objectivity alone, but also by such non-rational factors as rhetoric, propaganda, and personal prejudice
Science confirms: Laughter really is the best medicine By | August 4, 2016
Do the joyless PC police want to be enemies of science?