Tag: medicine

Living Energy: How the Energy of Life Integrates With the Science of Medicine to Keep Us Strong and Healthy

We can’t see the air around us, but we can feel it. We walk in it, we breathe it in. And we can’t live without it. So what about energy? Not the energy we make to power our homes, our cars, and our phones, but the energy that keeps our hearts beating. We can’t see…


Mom’s Medicine Hack for Young Children Leaves Her Baby Wanting More: Video

A mom has shared a clever hack for encouraging little ones to take their medicine with fewer tears and more giggles, and parents are loving it. Mom of two Nikki Jurcutz, a former paramedic and specialist in birth courses and baby first aid, shared her now-viral genius hack on her Instagram page, TinyHeartsEducation. Holding her 18-month-old…


A New Approach to Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is a wound that is difficult to comprehend and impossible to see from the outside, and affects a more diverse set of individuals than one might think. Active-duty military and veterans are the most obvious population to endure TBI. They most often suffer from the condition as a result of…


UCI Reduces COVID-19 Hospitalizations Through Transfusions 

The University of California–Irvine (UCI) says it’s found a way to reduce COVID-19 related hospitalizations, and the strategy is so effective that a federal virus response team has tapped it as a model. The UCI is using monoclonal antibodies (antibodies developed in a laboratory) to help lessen virus symptoms for those who tested positive for…


Final Doctor Sentenced in $153 Million Medical Insurance Fraud Scheme

SANTA ANA (CNS)—A 73-year-old physician—the last of 19 defendants in a $154 million medical insurance fraud scheme dating back more than two decades—was sentenced Jan. 29 to three years of formal probation, 1,000 hours of community service and ordered to pay $2.9 million in restitution. Dr. Mario Rosenberg, was indicted along with a dozen others in…


Orange County Supervisors Slam Othena App for Vaccines

SANTA ANA (CNS)—Orange County supervisors Jan. 26 offered blistering criticism of Othena, the county’s app and website for COVID-19 vaccinations, as they raised concerns about a shortfall in the medicine and rising costs for testing and vaccines. Supervisor Don Wagner said many of his constituents have called him to complain about Othena. “Othena sucks,” Wagner…


We Need to Protect the Vulnerable, Not Facilitate Their Death

Commentary In September 2019, one judge in one lower court in one province (Quebec) decided that a medically assisted death should be available to people who are not dying. Now, the federal government’s Bill C-7, if it passes, will change the law for all Canadians who are chronically ill or disabled—including those who in addition…