Tag: medicine

Tylenol’s Active Ingredient Paracetamol Is Destroying Your Fertility: Peer-Reviewed Study

Tylenol is destroying men’s sperm. That’s just one of the alarming revelations in a new article published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental International. The study, “Combined exposures to bisphenols, polychlorinated dioxins, paracetamol, and phthalates as drivers of deteriorating sperm quality” was conducted by an international team of scientists from the United Kingdom and Denmark. [1]…


Tylenol’s Active Ingredient Acetaminophen Is Destroying Your Fertility: Peer-Reviewed Study

Tylenol is destroying men’s sperm. That’s just one of the alarming revelations in a new article published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental International. The study, “Combined exposures to bisphenols, polychlorinated dioxins, paracetamol, and phthalates as drivers of deteriorating sperm quality” was conducted by an international team of scientists from the United Kingdom and Denmark. [1]…


Lack of Tranparency in Trials for Cancer Medication: Study

A multi-national study led by Australia’s Flinders University has found that more than 50 percent of the clinical trials the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) used to approve anti-cancer medications over the past decade are not available for public scrutiny. This comes after the pharmaceutical industry made a commitment in 2014 to improve data transparency….


Recent Outbreaks of a Genus of Deadly Bacteria Raise a Major Concern

On July 13, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported a recent investigation of a listeria outbreak. The incident began when Big Olaf Creamery in Florida was contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes during the production of its ice cream, and the company recalled all of its ice cream after the incident. The incident caused cases…


6 Medicinal Herbs You Should Be Growing in Your Garden

Not that long ago, people knew the healing properties of plants that grew in the fields and forests where they lived. This knowledge was invaluable when doctors might be hours or even days away. It was also a way of life. Today, knowing we can treat the most common ailments with plants grown in our…


What Does Exercise Really Do That an ‘Exercise Pill’ Doesn’t?

After Popeye the Sailor Man eats a can of spinach, he can grow strong muscles. Can the rest of us now also take a pill that does the job of exercise? In the June issue of the journal Nature, a discovery caught people’s attention. It has made many people who do not like exercising or…


Natural Alternatives to Statins

With more than 35 million people taking them, statins are among the most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States, as they are considered the most effective in lowering the “bad cholesterol” in our body. Since high cholesterol can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other heart-related medical conditions, and given the fact that heart…


The Paradox That Haunts New Antibiotics

Forget COVID-19, monkeypox, and other viruses for the moment and consider another threat troubling infectious disease specialists: common urinary tract infections, or UTIs, that lead to emergency room visits and even hospitalizations because of the failure of oral antibiotics. There’s no Operation Warp Speed charging to rescue us from the germs that cause these infections,…


What Would Hippocrates Say? Roe v. Wade, Abortion, and a Disappearing Oath

If you sought out a physician in 4th century B.C. Greece seeking an abortion, chances are, you would be out of luck. Ditto for 2nd century Rome. Or 10th century France. Or just about anywhere thereafter, prior to the advent of the 20th century. It just wasn’t done. Or at least, it wasn’t in good…


Lifestyle Changes Better Than Surgery for Preventing Stroke: Analysis

The risk of stroke can be better mitigated with lifestyle changes and medication than through invasive procedures, a study at Australia’s Monash University shows. Analysing more than 40 years of data on common treatments for advanced carotid stenosis—a leading cause of stroke—Monash University researcher Associate Professor Anne Abbott from the Central Clinical School found that…