Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Health Skepticism: Meta Studies Show Vitamin D and Calcium DOES NOT Reduce Fall Risk and Fractures in Older Adults

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One of the common supplementations suggested to older adults was vitamin D and calcium, to help stave off osteoperosis, risk of falling and ...
Saturday, July 13, 2024

Wellness Craze: The Cult of Raw Milk and Its Dangers

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A recent news item about a salmonella outbreak in 2023 that sickened WELL OVER ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE who drank "raw milk" reminded m...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Argh, food poisoning sucks

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 Not quite sure how it happened, but I got food poisoning after getting out of the hospital on Tuesday. I suspect it's on Friday, when I...
Thursday, May 9, 2024

Yes, still alive...

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Went to the CPMC campus on Van Ness for my ECRP procedure.  How did Uber get so expensive? I was going to book Uber, and apparently at 6AM i...
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Turns out, it's NOT self-inflicted AFTER ALL...

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Seems my PCP had gone pretty senile... Considering he's well over 80, it's understandable.  Basically, he missed my jaundiced condit...
Friday, February 2, 2024

My Recent Health Struggles were... Self-Inflicted

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It's been a while since I've offered an update, that's because I had been feeling sick for a WHILE, months.  Without making it t...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Florida COVIDiocy: FL Surgeon General Ladapo Wants to Unwind COVID Testing while Speaking at Podium with Sign "Early Treatment Saves Lives"

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I originally thought that DeSantis' Republican anti-health lunacy is limited to himself. Seems he has found a partner in his Surgeon Gen...
Saturday, April 30, 2011

3 Keys to Creativity Found

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The 3 keys to creativity is actually very simple: Educate: fill your brain with a lot of other people's ideas Stimulate: add some s...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

RANT: When rumors actually maim and kill, part 1

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Andrew Wakefield and wife, Image by Getty Images via Daylife Since 1998, a bunch of paranoid parents, claiming that the MMR (mumps, measles...
Friday, September 4, 2009

Malpractice suits: who really pays at the end?

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Image via Wikipedia Did you know that in New York City , 92.2% of OB/GYN doctors have been sued for malpractice at least once? And the av...

Anti-bacterial / germicidal: the real health threat?

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Image via Wikipedia Anti-bacterial or germicidal products are all around us. We are lead to believe that they are better than the plain-jan...