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My 43-year-old niece has type 1 diabetes and learned that earlier this year when she went to the ER with what turned out to be ketoacidosis. She was shocked because diabetes type 1 was not on her radar at all for why she had been feeling bad. My sister and I had an aunt with T1D, but she was the...

In the U.S., low-fat diet recommendations were like a religion for years. We were told that saturated fats increased cholesterol, which increased risk of heart disease. The U.S. food pyramid had 6-11 servings of grains at the bottom of the pyramid, meaning grains should comprise most of...

That's exactly how I misread it at first glance! It's really not a great name for a pharmaceutical company.

In the U.S., cyclobenzaprine hydrochloride is commonly known as Flexeril. I wonder if the only difference in Tonix's new drug is that it's sublingual.

I'm finishing Anthony Horowitz's novel Close to Death, book 5 of his meta Hawthorne and Horowitz series. One of the characters in Close to Death has ME.

Arghhh!!!

I bought a cooling towel for the neck on Amazon. I'm not sure why having something cool on the neck helps so much, but it works for me.

In Austin, Texas, we've had 2 measles cases recently, 1, an unvaccinated infant, and the other, a vaccinated adult man. For this 2nd case, the local news has provided a list of places he went to recently before getting diagnosed. Texas now has 646 cases of measles since late January of this year.

May I be gone before the resurgence of plague wagons and calls of bring out your dead.

Today I learned that I still have antibodies for both measles and polio. I had the blood test last week, and the lab tech told me that lots of people have been getting tested to see if their childhood vaccines for measles have held. Whew! I live in Texas, where there have been 422 cases of...

However the oral microbiome affects the rest of the body, it's important to have health gums and teeth if for no other reason than an unhealthy mouth can cause pain and lots of money spent at the dentist. I've found I really need to floss as well as use an electric toothbrush and a Waterpik to...

I got an RSV vaccine last week. The only side effects I experienced were increased fatigue and brainfog for 2 or 3 days. I'm 67, and although the FDA recommends RSV for people 75 and older, people 60-74 can also get it if they have weakened immune systems or other types of problems. RSV is...

As we sink further and further into this abyss of idiocy, I wonder if the day will come when all masks will be banned for any reason.

I'm getting an RSV vaccine tomorrow. I'm a bit nervous about it since in rare cases patients get Guillain-Barré from the vaccine, but I have heard of people here getting very sick from RSV, so I'll take a chance. I'm also going to ask for a titer test to see if I still have antibodies for...

American doctors receive limited nutrition training in med school, where subjects like vitamin A and its toxicity in excess amounts would be taught. I imagine very few traditional doctors would be of much help in recommending vitamin therapy for patients. For measles, most would recommend the...

Currently, the cost would be $15.50 per pill, so $31 a day for the suggested use of 1 pill every 12 hours. I wasn't able to find when it will actually be available for patients. It was just approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). It would be great to have a non-opioid pain drug if...

Are you certain you don't have apnea? Those are really low O2 nocturnal levels if your watch is accurate. I would want to be certain that neither obstructive sleep apnea nor central apnea is causing these low readings.

This article appeared in Salon today. It discusses how directives to federal health agencies to pause the release of information to the public could affect information we receive about bird flu...

You mean you wouldn't feel comfortable spending days on a floating petri dish?

Since Norovirus is so widespread, the public should be made aware that alcohol does not kill it. I didn't know that until recently. I'm so used to thinking that alcohol can kill just about anything, and I'm sure a lot of other people think that, too. Our nephew, his wife, and their baby flew...