Your mother was right There are 5.6 million Americans with Alzheimer’s type memory loss. The disease has a variable course, and the ambiguity can be agonizing. Those identified at an early stage face the decision to take intravenous antibody drugs at great...
In June, an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that the next round of Covid-19 boosters be targeted against the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant. Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax will use the same platforms to manufacture the new boosters...
God showed Noah by the rainbow sign, no more water, but fire next time. Fire Next Time Lyrics by Rev. Milton Brunson Wildfires produce ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, volatile heavy metals, and fine particulate...
By Dr. James Katz, MD, MPH Just When You Thought you Could Go Outside — It’s Lyme Disease Season 2023! Recently, three significant articles were published confirming the safety and effectiveness of permethrin treated clothing against Lyme disease. A two year study in...
A Lesson in the Law of Unintended Consequences. Understanding of DNA from 1955 to 2012 Spit in a tube and learn your risk of future diseases from your DNA? No, you won’t. Murky heritage Spit in a tube and learn your heritage? I am an Ashkenazi Jew from Russia, except,...
Covid-19 Remains a Dangerous Illness This year the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) expects 125,000 Americans will have died from Covid 19 in 2022. 1 out of 8 people dying is under the age of 65. The risk of dying is 20 times higher in the unvaccinated than in those...
The annual influenza epidemic begins in the southern hemisphere and works its way north. It enters the USA in the southern and western states. The CDC uses reports from Australia to monitor the type and severity of each year’s incursion in the southern hemisphere....
Can It be Fixed in Time? A Quote Worth Repeating: “Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,” (tweet on August 26) — Elon Musk, president of Tesla motors. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here How Do...
Only The US Working Population Resists Shrinkage Read Part 1 here and Part 3 here “Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming,” — Elon Musk Elon Musk, the president of Tesla motors, SpaceX rockets,...
Read Part 2 here and Part 3 here The “Working-age population” around the world is shrinking. Birth rates have fallen in developed countries; climate change and food insecurity will undermine expanding population trends in less developed countries. The implications...
Time to Dig Out the Masks A family of three Covid–19 Omicron variants – the BA.5 family – (BA.4. BA.5. and BA1.12.1)) are burning their way through the US population. BA.5 went from 1% of all infections in May to 21% in June. They are changing the rules...
When is the next wave coming? It‘s already here. It‘s Long Haul. The first wave of Covid was horrific. Patients jammed hallways, unable to breathe, hospitals ran out of ventilators, and doctors, nurses, and first responders died with their patients. Workers placed...
