COVID-19

If you’ve not already done so, I would encourage you to stock up on supplies for a potential medical quarantine situation. I’ve been tracking COVID-19 (the corona virus) since January. I see no reason why the spread of the virus should be much different in...

Good news of the day

We’ve not yet tested it on every type of cancer, but it’s more successful than chemo and it’s much more easily tolerated by the patient. In a trial of more than 350 patients, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 36% treated with the immunotherapy...

Theranos, a sad medical scam

…it is impossible to get a precise result from the tip of a finger for most of the tests that Theranos would claim to conduct accurately. When a finger is pricked, the probe breaks up cells, allowing debris, among other things, to escape into the interstitial...