Category: Health News

CDC Lowers Speech Standards for Children

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lowered its standards of childhood speech development, a decision that has many people worried about the way mental progress is measured in kids. CDC added two new child development milestones at 15 and 30 months. Earlier, children aged 24 months were expected to know about…


Selling Drugs and Diseases

Many people like direct-to-consumer (DTC) “ask your doctor” drug ads on TV. They enjoy the drama of the mini “sitcoms,” such as a woman with severe asthma who can finally go out again or a man whose depression lifts, and he starts playing with his puppy again. People can feel empowered by knowing the symptoms…


Understanding Alzheimer’s, the Basics

Researchers have explored many complementary health approaches for preventing or slowing dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, there is no strong evidence that any complementary health approach can prevent cognitive impairment. What the Science Says Following are some of the complementary health approaches that have been studied in recent years. Fish Oil/Omega-3s. Among the nutritional and dietary factors studied…


New Clues Suggest How Autoimmune Diseases Begin

New research in mice may upend current ideas about how autoimmune diseases get started. After cancer and heart disease, the most common group of diseases in the US are autoimmune diseases, which occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s own organs, tissues, and cells. Autoimmune diseases can affect just about any part of…


Staff Shortage Concerns Challenge Germany’s Vaccine Mandate

BERLIN—Frank Vogel, a 64-year-old local politician from the eastern German Erzgebirge region, has been scrambling to find ways to keep nursing homes open when a vaccine mandate for health care workers takes effect next month. His region near the Czech border has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Germany. With only 57 percent of…


Hospitalizations of Children Dropped During COVID-19 Pandemic: CDC

Hospitalizations among children during the COVID-19 pandemic declined, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but those who were hospitalized were mostly due to the coronavirus. The study diagnosed children up to the age of 17 years, splitting them into three groups of 0–4, 5–11, and 12–17 years….


Hospitalizations of Children Dropped During COVID-19 Pandemic: Study

Hospitalizations among children during the COVID-19 pandemic declined, according to a study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but those who were hospitalized were mostly due to the coronavirus. The study diagnosed children up to the age of 17 years, splitting them into three groups of 0–4, 5–11, and 12–17…


Statins Do More Harm Than Good

Amid the pandemic media storm in January 2021, a study1 published in the journal Atherosclerosis quietly revealed that people taking statin medications had a higher rate of cardiovascular events than those who were not on statins. In the study, the researchers separated the participants by assigning them a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score. This is a…


Study Finds Ivermectin ‘Did Not Prevent’ Severe COVID-19, but Doctors Alliance Calls It ‘Misleading’

A peer-reviewed study in which researchers concluded that ivermectin treatment during early COVID-19 “did not prevent” severe disease in high-risk patients has been criticized by an alliance of doctors for being “misleading.” In the open-label randomized clinical trial, also referred to as the “The I-TECH Randomized Clinical Trial,” published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal on Feb. 18,…


Recovering From the Pandemic Aftershock

It was a lazy Saturday morning, and I sat curled up on the couch with a coffee in hand. My cell phone rang, and I was surprised to see a friend’s daughter calling from the West Coast. It was 6 a.m. her time. I picked up with a little catch in my heart. I knew…