Gun liability insurance makes enormous sense. If you get a trampoline in your yard, or a pool, insurance companies will raise your rates. These things have injury rates much lower than guns.
Doctors die by suicide at an alarmingly high rate. It’s a painful reality that is far too often ignored––or worse, intentionally concealed.
Treating patients in the midst of a global pandemic has become yet another factor contributing to physician distress and suicide in recent months. The stories of medical professionals lost to suicide amid the Covid-19 outbreak are shining new light on some long-standing and dangerous shortcomings in our systems of medical education and practice.
Ashish Jha, the dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health, served as the White House Covid-19 response coordinator from March 2022 to June 2023. On Monday, after delivering the keynote for an infectious disease symposium at the University of Michigan, Jha sat down with Undark to discuss what the country got wrong, and what […]
Healthcare was not a high-priority campaign issue for either candidate in 2024. But Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, to head the Department of Health & Human Services, and Mehmet Oz, MD, to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as his promises to tame drug costs, eliminate Medicare fraud, […]
GLP-1 receptor agonists are transforming clinical practices and protocols for significant weight-health wins. In this free webinar, you will learn the science behind a clinically-proven natural GLP-1 activator called Calocurb, and how it can be used with and without prescription medications. You’ll discover a supplement derived from hops, and clinically shown to reduce cravings by […]
For a lot of people these days, medical clinics are no longer the center of the healthcare equation like they were in the past: their smartphones are now the point of focus. An astonishing number of medical tests, treatments, and services have jumped out of the clinic and into peoples’ daily lives via their computers, […]
(Originally published on Aug 24, 2024 by www.undark.org) About three years ago, Soumya Rangarajan struggled day after day with exhaustion, headaches, and heart palpitations. As a frontline hospital doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic, she first attributed her symptoms to the demands of an unprecedented health care crisis. But a social media post got Rangarajan thinking […]
Daily supplementation with 1,500 mg of curcumin extract reduced fasting blood glucose, lowered hemoglobin A1c, and improved pancreatic β-cell function in obese people with type 2 diabetes. Those are the topline findings from a recent, year-long, placebo-controlled trial, involving 229 participants. Curcumin-treated patients also got a small but significant bonus benefit: weight loss. “We believe […]
The cosmologists tell us we are made of ‘star-stuff,’ that the elements and energies of which we are comprised have their origins in the sun. For most of us, that’s theoretical. But some people seem to embody this truth. Their very presence emanates a certain shine that illuminates and invigorates everyone and everything around them. […]
Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) are signaling growth factors that induce mesenchymal stem cells to differentiate into osteoblasts and chondrocytes for de novo bone and cartilage production. First discovered in the 1960s, BMP complexes ushered in the field of regenerative medicine in the context of orthopedic surgery. Today, BMP-complexes are available as an oral nutritional supplement, […]
Everyone knows that dietary fiber is essential for digestive health, and that fiber-rich diets reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. A new cross-sectional analysis of data from more than 4,600 Americans indicates that high intake of dietary fiber may also lower the risk of peripheral artery disease (PAD). Researchers at the Shenzhen Clinical Research Centre […]
(Originally published by www.undark.org, Aug 5, 2024) In August, the US Food and Drug Administration decided not to approve the psychedelic drug MDMA (midomafetamine) for use in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder in conjunction with psychological intervention. The move signals the FDA’s desire to put the brakes on the psychedelics research, which has rapidly moved […]
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