Affirmative action took a major blow on June 29 after the Supreme Court ruled that universities can no longer give preferential treatment to black students over other races—or preferential treatment to any race, for that matter. Here to talk with us about how the ruling will affect civil rights going forward is Roger Severino. He’s…
Supreme Court Says ‘Enough Is Enough With the Racial Balancing’: Roger Severino
Overdoses Now a Leading Cause of Death for Pregnant Women
Joanne Harrison Clough, a single mother, and attorney raising her granddaughter, said that when her daughter, Emily, was pregnant, she sought in-person treatments for opioid addiction. However, no one was willing to accept her as a patient. “She had a terrible time when she was pregnant,” said Clough. “We tried to get her in in-patient…
Prostate Cancer Treatment Can Wait for Most Men, Study Finds
Researchers have found long-term evidence that actively monitoring localized prostate cancer is a safe alternative to immediate surgery or radiation. The results, released Saturday, are encouraging for men who want to avoid treatment-related sexual and incontinence problems, said Dr. Stacy Loeb, a prostate cancer specialist at NYU Langone Health who was not involved in the…
Sen. Feinstein Recovering at Home After Hospital Treatment
WASHINGTON—Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the oldest member of Congress, has been released from the hospital after being treated for shingles, she said on Tuesday, though she did not specify when she would be able to return to Washington. Democrats control the Senate by a narrow 51–49 margin, meaning that even one or two absences can…
Sleep Apnea Device Works From Inside the Body
A little nerve stimulation can coax the tongue from blocking the airway and alleviate obstructive sleep apnea for a segment of sufferers who aren’t getting relief from continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). This is the mechanism behind a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved technology that’s been known on the market as Inspire since 2014….
Long-COVID Mental Health Issues: 2 Main Causes, Low-Cost Treatment, and Natural Ways to Heal
“If I could take one symptom away from all of [my long-COVID patients], I think that would be depression,” said critical care specialist Dr. Joseph Varon, chief of critical care and the COVID-19 department at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas. Beyond the physical tribulations and social instability that this condition can bring,…
Cooking for Healing—The Many Medicinal Properties of Mint
Herbs and spices were used by ancient cultures to heal the body, mind, and spirit. While the western world has largely replaced these natural remedies with pharmaceuticals, roughly 80 percent of people worldwide still use traditional or ancient medicine. This is not surprising considering that more than 80 percent of pharmaceuticals are derived or developed from…
Is Leukemia Truly Incurable and Fatal?
Leukemia is a term that scares many people. It is commonly known as blood cancer and is a malignant disease involving the blood system. But is leukemia truly incurable and fatal? How has leukemia’s treatment method and its effectiveness progressed in recent years? The Epoch Times interviewed Michael Andreeff, a professor of medicine in the…
Progress in Treatment of Post-COVID Conditions
Long COVID, also called post-COVID condition (PCC), is defined as the continuation or development of new symptoms three months after initial COVID infection, with those symptoms lasting at least two months with no other cause found. Long COVID can affect a person of any age infected with any severity of the disease. A Mix of Many Different…
Clinicians Discuss Major Treatments for Long COVID–The Effective and the Questionable
Long COVID has posed a challenge for doctors to treat. Critical care specialist Dr. Paul Marik has labeled long COVID a syndrome rather than a disease due to its complicated symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, malaise, shortness of breath, tachycardia, and gastrointestinal problems, to name just a few. The symptom clusters of long COVID have…
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