Tag: health

Want to be a Dad? Count Your Sperm If You’ve Had the Jab

A recent study from Israel presents evidence that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are negatively affecting men’s fertility, at least temporarily. The study, “Covid-19 vaccination BNT162b2 temporarily impairs semen concentration and total motile count among semen donors,” is so new that even though it has been accepted by the journal Andrology and peer-reviewed, it has not yet…


How I Healed My Sciatica

We are a sedentary society, especially as we age. The older we get, the more challenging it can be to keep from sitting too much. Our bodies may ache, our legs may be unsteady, our energy is less, and we don’t exercise as often. The pandemic even exacerbated this trend with having to stay isolated…


Government-Subsidised Mental Health Services Underutilised in Australian Aged Care: Study

Less than three percent of Australians with mental health conditions living in residential aged care facilities access government-subsidised mental health services, an analysis by South Australian researchers has found. The lead author of the study and psychology registrar and epidemiologist from Flinders University, Dr. Monica Cations, said aged care residents are four times more likely to…


Australian University Invents New Tech Helping People With Aphasia Write Their Stories

Scientists from Australia’s Monash University have worked out a new technology to help people with aphasia to communicate. Teaming up with Monash Health speech pathologists and their patients, students from the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) and Monash Young Medtech Innovators (MYMI) have designed Project QWERTY, a free website that offers a high-tech but…


How To Keep Your Brain Young

Are forgetfulness and “senior moments” inevitable parts of aging? Many medical professionals (including the doctor in CNN’s news brief above) say it’s perfectly normal to start having memory lapses by the time you reach middle age. I disagree. In fact, if you notice memory lapses, you may want to seriously consider making some immediate lifestyle…


Whistleblower Says With 120,000 Troops Still Unvaccinated, Army May Move June 30 Deadline Far Into Future

As the June 30 deadline nears for compliance with the U.S. military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, U.S. Army officials publicly claim a very small percentage of its members are unvaccinated, reporting 96% or more of its members are fully vaccinated. However, the Army’s vaccination rate is in fact significantly lower than 96%, an active-duty senior Army official with access to senior-level information…


FDA Advisory Panel Rejects Acadia’s Antipsychotic for Alzheimer’s

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted against the approval of Acadia Pharmaceutical’s drug for hallucinations and delusions associated with Alzheimer’s disease psychosis on Friday. The advisory voted 3 to 9 with no abstention after eight hours of discussion. The panel concluded that the studies were not enough to support the efficacy of…


Doctors’ Group Urges Biden Administration to End Quarantine, Vaccine Recommendations for Children

A group of doctors is urging top government officials to quickly reverse recommendations that have left children in isolation for days and advice that virtually every child get a COVID-19 vaccine. “We strongly urge you to revise the CDC’s COVID-19 guidelines with regards to testing, isolation, and vaccine recommendations for children to ensure that public…


4 Common Foods That Kill 15 Million People per Year

The biggest causes of death in the world are preventable, lifestyle-related diseases. These include obesity, heart disease, type II diabetes and various types of cancer. In the year 2011 alone, these diseases killed over 15 million people. Interestingly, most of these diseases appear to be completely absent in populations that eat a non-industrial diet. What this implies is that…


Reactivation of Chickenpox Virus Following COVID-19 Injections on the Rise

News Analysis Doctors and scientists are seeing an increase in the reactivation of the chickenpox virus, known as varicella-zoster virus (VZV), following the COVID-19 injections. The chickenpox virus is one of the eight herpes viruses known to infect humans. After a person contracts and recovers from chickenpox, the virus never leaves the body but lies…