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Source: BBC News When I first saw the Mona Lisa in 1994 I was unimpressed. Sorry but the build up from my art history studies was just too much when I encountered the surprisingly diminutive painting, from the requisite cordoned distance and through a bullet proof casing in Le Grande Louvre. But I digress. Dr. Vito Franco, [...] Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Bacteria are living things. Specifically, single-celled organisms found both in our bodies and upon our skin. Bacteria have apparently evolved with us and most bacteria are not harmful. A virus is an organism which requires a host (cells of the body) in which to live. Why is this distinction [...] Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Antimicrobial (Drug) Resistance Quick Facts Increasing use of antimicrobials in humans, animals, and agriculture has resulted in many microbes developing resistance to these powerful drugs. Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention According to the CDC, some 3,000 pregnancies a year are ffected by spina bifida or anencephaly (, neural tube defects caused by the incomplete development of the brain and spinal cord). Studies have shown that women taking 400 mcg of folic acid daily both before and during pregnancy [...] Source: The Wall Street Journal Along with the groundswell of lukewarm support for Health Care Reform in the United States comes the screeching noise from the physician’s lobby arm over Tort Reform. And on cue, the Central Budgeting Office goes to work making numbers work. Guess what? They found out that money could be saved with a [...] Source: BBC News Arti-arteries. Nanotechnology (yeah, I don’t know what it means either) is being used to produce artery-like materials from polymers (they’re not just plastic anymore). While no one knows how any of it actually works (sarcasm) the implications are amazing. Scientists are actually constructing materials to use as bypass grafts which actually mimic human blood [...] Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine and NIH Medline; HealthDay It’s cold out here in most of the United States. Really cold. So why aren’t your seasonal allergies taking a rest? Your indoor air quality may still qualify you for three more months of stuffiness, sneezing, watery eyes and asthma. With the windows closed tight and the [...] Source: The Lewis Law Firm, PC From our families to yours. Have a Happy and Healthy New Year’s eve and every day thereafter. ~Posted by David Marc Schwadron, Esquire Source: US Dpt. of Health & Human Services; www.womens.health.gov; Wall Street Journal The vast majority of women who are pregnant are also taking at least one prescription drug. In our modern, hectic and stressful society, antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications are among them. But are they really safe? The answer is we really don’t exactly know…exactly. There are [...] Source: The New England Journal of Medicine; BBC Health Yes, that’s right. Scientists have now found another “bad” cholesterol which contributes to the development of heart disease. (Somebody please, stop them!) We already know of LDL, the other “bad” cholesterol which is not to be confused with HDL, the “good” cholesterol. The latest to join the [...] |
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