Disease

Unlike stopping a pathogen with an antibiotic or antiviral drug, a process that is simple and well-understood, getting a handle on the seemingly impossible complexity of cancer cannot be more different.

Who would have guessed that cancers produce fungi? Or that different types of cancers would harbor different types of fungus?

Join our directors of bio-sciences and medicine Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein as they break down these stories on episode 22 of the Science Dispatch podcast.

A slew of recent studies has suggested that climate change is increasing the number of heart attacks worldwide.

Join our directors of bio-sciences and medicine Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein as they break down these stories on episode 21 of the Science Dispatch podcast.

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice - in practice, there is." - Yogi Berra  

The study asks whether simple dietary intervention, the daily use of cocoa or Centrum Silver, will slow the downward spiral of dementia. Why those two? Cocoa has a very high percentage of flavonoids which increase cerebral blood flow.

The dataset comes from the states with MAID laws on the books – 5329 individuals over 23 years, with another 8451 receiving “prescriptions.”

Increasing concerns about long-haul COVID (LHC) have appeared in the popular press but less frequently in the medical literature. The PubMed database lists 32,922 review papers on COVID-19 but only 196 on LHC.

First, a very few words about ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.