Before I launch into the topics of the day, I am going to share with you an opinion piece about the recent CDC guidelines. I find myself in complete concurrence with this piece, which was posted a few weeks ago on MedPage Today, a medical website that is a very helpful source of information for […]
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Way back in April 2018, the World Health Organization issued its Thirteenth General Programme of Work, which attracted a certain amount of notice at the time, but was certainly not treated as front-page news. The GPW 13, as WHO called it, was centered on three ambitious targets – worthy, but in the view of […]
“For such a beastly month as February, 28 days as a rule are plenty,” said the Pirate King. But you would be surprised at the number of interesting snippets of news in the health-care realm that landed in my inbox during this short month. I’ll lead off with one that gave me a particular kick. […]
[ed. note: Michael Jorrin, who I dubbed “Doc Gumshoe” years ago, is a longtime medical writer (not a doctor) who writes for us a couple times a month about health issues, marketing, and trends. He does not typically focus on specific investment opportunities, but has agreed to our trading restrictions… as with all of our […]
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A possible factor in autism; Immune molecules in infected mothers tied to brain and behavior abnormalities in offspring...
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A reasonable thing to do, Reasonable Guy, is a more thorough check on the facts. I tend to doubt the overall veracity o...
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Sorry, meant to post link for the Cochrane flu study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20614424 A juicy quote fr...
I believe that vaccines had a large part in advancing our world health, but in my mind the jury is still out on flu shot...
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