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Health Update: “The Air That Heals: Medical Breakthroughs in Hyperbaric Therapy” 200 words Studies with some good treatment news for those suffering from residual effects following cancer treatments, PTSD, Diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. Here’s encouraging news from The Wright Report, and this time it comes out of Sweden. Researchers there have…
A Growing Unease: When Even Traditional Vaccines Raise Questions – Why did our last flu shot give us a 27% HIGHER RISK OF GETTING THE FLU? A study from the Cleveland Clinic followed 53,000 employees, and the results showed it had a negative effectiveness rate. Not good. Actually, bad. Something…
Guess what? The future they warned us about in The Matrix is here—and the scientists aren’t even pretending to hide it. by Michael Stevens 400 words Three researchers at Stanford—Carsten Charlesworth, Henry Greely, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi—have laid out a blueprint to grow living human bodies without brains. No thought. No…
We’ve seen vaccines save lives before: the polio vaccine, the smallpox vaccine, and the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. These were carefully tested, refined over time, and designed to prevent disease and transmission. Mistakes were made—like the tragic Cutter Incident with the Salk polio vaccine—but those failures led to…
West Texas is grappling with a measles surge that has set off alarm bells nationwide. According to a detailed report by state health officials published in The Texas Tribune, the outbreak has reached 90 confirmed cases with 16 hospitalizations since last month. The epicenter remains Gaines County, with the virus…
Short Pocket News Info– A new study in Nature Medicine reports that dementia cases in the U.S. are expected to double by 2060, with 1 million new diagnoses annually. By age 55, 40% of adults may face dementia in their lifetime—a higher risk than previously thought. This alarming projection comes…
This news from Nature.com offers real hope for a cure for type 1 diabetes. While it may take years and likely come at a high cost, it’s a promising step forward. The breakthrough also suggests a potential path toward addressing type 2 diabetes. It’s long overdue, but now we have…
Continuing my efforts to share breakthroughs in medicine and health – good and bad -, here are two that look really good. Alzheimer’s In early July, the US FDA approved a drug called donanemab for early-stage Alzheimer’s. This makes it the second drug to slow the disease’s progress and the…
The Hidden Consequences of Soft Totalitarianism on Our Youngest Generation The pandemic’s babies, toddlers, and preschoolers (aka COVID-19 kids) are now reaching school age, and the impact of the last few years on their development is alarmingly clear. This period of soft totalitarianism, characterized by enforced isolation and strict regulations,…
Gold Nanocrystals Show Promise in MS and PD Treatment Phase two clinical trials at UT Southwestern Medical Center have shown that gold nanocrystals could potentially reverse and improve neurological issues in patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson’s Disease (PD). This innovative treatment, highlighted in the Journal of Nanobiotechnology, showcases…
