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MENTAL

Alzheimer’s Will Limit Human Space Travel

I read a lot of science fiction, as scores have done before me over the past few centuries. I find a galactic setting helpful in...

ENVIRON

The Recycling Lie – How Corporations Duped Us Into Drowning in Plastic

For too long, a duplicitous fantasy about the purported virtues of recycling has been sold to the public.

EDUCATE

UNDERSTANDING

Preparing for: Laparoscopic Tubal Sterilization

During a laparoscopic tubal ligation out-patient procedure, the fallopian tubes are tied, cut, or removed to permanently prevent pregnancy. Tubal surgery blocks the pathway between the uterus and ovaries preventing sperm from reaching the egg.

DISEASES

Why Fossil Fuel Industry Efforts Must be Monitored Before and During COP28

Why the UAE May be the Right Venue for the World’s Most Important Climate Change Gathering?

Old Medical Oath Needs Refresh From the Original Hippocratic Version

Graduating medical school students traditionally swear allegiance to the Hippocratic Oath, which they assume mandates that they “first do no harm,” but it is dated and now coming under fire.

Dementia Remains One of Our Most Serious Mysteries

Many dementia misdiagnoses are written in stone in charts, and then the patients are treated accordingly. Often, patients suffer from this ageist bias.

A Big Stroke Myth You Should Know

A STROKE OCCURS WHEN A BLOOD CLOT cuts off blood flow to the brain, or there is blood vessel bleeding in the brain. Let's look at...

HEALTHY MINDS

SAFETY

Voluntary Recall: Two Lots of NP Thyroid® Tablets, Due to Sub Potency

Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC is voluntarily recalling one lot of 15-mg and one lot of 120-mg NP Thyroid®, Thyroid Tablets, USP [levothyroxine (T4) and liothyronine (T3)] to the consumer level.

CARDIO

GLP‑1 Medications in Later Life: Why the “Miracle Shot” Needs a Senior‑Specific Safety Lens

When GLP-1 medications like semaglutide began to gain attention, many people saw them as a breakthrough. For some people, these drugs help lower blood sugar,...

SCAMS

QUACK ALERTS

Simone Gold and America’s Frontline Con Artists Launch a Road Trip

America's Frontline Doctors (AFLD) and Simone Gold, disgraced medical quack, take their medical carnival show on the road in an RV, just like Medicine men of old.