‘The first decade of the 21st century has already produced a new rogues’ gallery of infectious threats: SARS, pandemic H1N1 influenza, the deadly Nipah virus, the first confirmations of dengue virus transmission in the United States since the 1920s and a deadly new bunyavirus recently discovered by
Read more →It is official… Gut bacteria does make a difference in human health. According to a recent study by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, the human population of the world can be divided into three groups according to gut bacteria. This is a huge discovery.
Read more →This is a question that I hear all the time in my practice. The conventional wisdom is that any person can become allergic to any substance at any point in time. What is really happening with Allergic reactions? To answer this question, we need to understand what
Read more →There has been a good deal of talk concerning calcium and osteoporosis. Many post-menopausal women have been advised to supplement their diets with calcium in order to stave off bone loss. This is good advice, but it does not go far enough. Studies have shown that calcium
Read more →The local newspaper published an article in the Op-Ed section which encourages new research in this field. Dr. Sheldon Kaplan of Texas Children’s and Baylor College of Medicine wrote to say that “Now’s time to declare war on antibiotic resistance.” Dr. Kaplan observes that drugs have lost
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