Back in the old days before COVID-19, many of us had routines that we practiced, to keep healthy.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the conditions that humans fear the most. It is horrible enough, for a person to leave the land if the living in an automobile crash or with a sudden heart attack. AD is far worse. People gradually lose their memory, their ability to function, and their very identity, to the ravages of the disease. After decades of study, there is still no consensus on what causes AD, but recent findings are revealing that, unlike infectious diseases that are caused by a single pathogenic agent, there are multiple contributing factors. Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has ripped through country after country after first emerging in Wuhan, China in December 2019. It has exposed for all to see, how poorly prepared most countries have been at coping with a highly infectious disease, let alone stamping it out. One country, however, stands out as one that responded early and effectively to the threat. A paper that recently appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) describes the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Iceland, and how the medical establishment there dealt with the infection. Continue reading
Perhaps you remember the old aphorism “Exercise is the best medicine.” For at least the past 40 years, regular exercise has been universally recognized as being a healthful thing. Many people such as the late Jack LaLanne, who died at age 96, have been promoting exercise much longer than that. It’s clear that regular exercise protects people from many of the impairments that otherwise seem to be an inevitable consequence of aging. Continue reading
Over two million people around the world have become infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and so far, over one hundred thousand of those have died. The COVID-19 disease has been so devastating because it is easily transmitted, and a carrier of the disease may initially show no symptoms, leading to exponential spread. Continue reading