Part one, provided information you probably suspected all along. The article, “Takeaway Food Consumption and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors” appeared in Medical News Today. The piece was accompanied by a photo of what could have been a condo doorman handing a couple of boxes of succulent broiled salmon and grilled spinach delivered from an upscale restaurant, […]
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Ponder this about the radiation exposure from imaging studies: Because CT scans are less expensive (for example $600-$1,000 abdominal CT with contrast) than an MRI ($2,000-$3,000), insurance companies require a lot of prior authorizations before they’ll agree to pay for the latter. In addition, CT scans are faster and the equipment is less expensive for […]
This all started with a postcard I received from Northwestern, “Do You Have Difficulty Walking?”, beckoning me to enter the FIRST research study. This is not “first,” like “first, second,” but an acronym (not mentioned on the card) for quite a mouthful: Fisetin to Reduce Senescence and Mobility Impairment in Peripheral Artery Disease. “Fisetin?”, I […]
We’ll now pick up from last week’s Health Tip on chronic Epstein Barr infection, a/k/a chronic mononucleosis. Once, usually in your teens or twenties, you had a doozy of a sore throat, swollen glands in your neck, a fever, and were exhausted, maybe even pain on the left side of your abdomen from a swollen […]
For a while the original Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (also called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) was attributed solely to EBV…
Simply because the numbers of patients with long COVID is so vast (400 million worldwide, 200 recorded symptoms), you can bet there’s a lot of research going on trying to figure out how to test for it and how to cure it. Just last week, Nature Communications published the results of yearlong interviews of almost […]