Disease

  Fred Lipfert, Ph.D., and Sheldon Lipsky 

Identifying skin cancer

The historians looked back at many of our prior pandemics; you know the litany, the Black Death, numerous episodes of cholera, and the Spanish Flu.

I’ve wondered about that last question for some time. Hypertension is a recognized COVID-19 co-morbidity, but a large portion of the population has hypertension; it didn’t seem to be a significant discriminator between little and lots of risk.

A new study published in BMJ examined if there was a link between natural hair color or dye and cancer. A lot of women color their hair, so this is certainly a worthwhile topic.

While there are many ways to define loneliness, the researchers, studying a cross-section of adults in the Netherlands, settled on this: 

The table seen below this paragraph was taken from a poster [1] at the European and International Congress on Obesity, which shows the number of individ

In June, we discussed air pollution dispersion as a model for virus dispersion.

Prostate cancer, now considered the most common cancer in men, especially African-Americans, was uncommon until the 1950s.

As I wrote previously, I was held hostage on an extended stay in Poland from February to August due to the corona