Category: Mayo Clinic

How to Raise Honeybees

For thousands of years, humans have prized honey for its taste as well as its health benefits. By raising bees at home, beekeepers can harvest and enjoy their own honey. There are two types of honey: raw and processed. Raw honey is collected from a beehive and consumed after it’s passed through a filter to…


Non-Profit Hospitals Made Huge Profits During Pandemic While Receiving $23 Billion in Federal COVID-19 Aid: Report

Federal officials gave more than $23 billion COVID-19 aid to the nation’s top 20 nonprofit hospitals even as a 62 percent increase in their collective net assets led parallel surges in the institutions’ total profits and revenues during the 2018-2021 time period spanning the Coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report. Only two of the…


New Bronx High School Focused on Excellence, Responsibility

“The message to the kids in our school is that they are the architects of their own lives,” says Ian Rowe, co-founder of Vertex Partnership Academies. In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek visited Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of character-focused, International Baccalaureate high schools located in the Bronx. He spoke…


Can You Hear Me Now?

The ability to hear clearly is a luxury that is often taken for granted, until we realize we can no longer hear the TV, friends and family, or certain tones. Our ability to hear is an incredible process: the very abbreviated description of the process is that sound waves, which are vibrations in the air,…


Hardening of Heart Valves is a Major Predictor for Mortality, Mayo Clinic Finds

A study by Mayo Clinic has found that a common hardening of valves in the heart, which affected around a quarter of patients checking for heart conditions, increases the risk of mortality as well as cardiovascular disease and valvular disease. “Mitral annulus calcification [hardening of heart valves] has been known to be associated with cardiovascular…


Mayo Clinic Sued Over Firing Workers for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccines

The first lawsuits in a legal blitz expected to ultimately involve over 100 former workers were filed this week in federal court against the Mayo Clinic. The suits deal with the clinic’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In one, filed on May 16 in federal court in Minnesota, nurse Shelly Kiel, a Christian, says she was the…


Two Families Fighting for Alternative COVID-19 Treatments Say Goodbye to Their Hospitalized Loved Ones

Two men on ventilators—one in Florida and one in Arizona—died within 24 hours of each other, even as their families were still fighting with hospitals for the chance to try alternative treatments. After all other treatments offered by the hospitals failed, both families had begged to try ivermectin and other alternative treatments for COVID-19, as…


Two Families Fought Hospitals to Allow Alternative COVID Treatments, Now Their Family Members Have Died

Two men on ventilators—one in Florida and one in Arizona—died within 24 hours of each other, even as their families were still fighting with hospitals for the chance to try alternative treatments. After all other treatments offered by the hospitals failed, both families had begged to try ivermectin and other alternative treatments for COVID-19, as…


Two Families Fought Hospitals to Allow Alternative COVID Treatments, Now Their Loved Ones Have Died

Two men on ventilators—one in Florida and one in Arizona—died within 24 hours of each other, even as their families were still fighting with hospitals for the chance to try alternative treatments. After all other treatments offered by the hospitals failed, both families had begged to try ivermectin and other alternative treatments for COVID-19, as…


After 28 Days on Ventilator, Family Loses Legal Battle to Try Ivermectin, Other Alternative Treatments, for Dying Father

A Florida family fighting to give their loved one on a ventilator alternative treatments for COVID-19 have lost another battle—this time in Florida’s First District Court of Appeal. The wife and son of Daniel Pisano first squared off against Mayo Clinic Florida at an emergency hearing on Dec. 30 in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit. Before…