Tag: Mind & Body

Practicing With the Complaining Habit

We can often spot complainers—when it’s other people. They’re the kind of people who always seem to be complaining, negative, stuck in victimhood. It’s harder to see it when we’re the ones who are often complaining. And in fact, in my experience, most of us are in the habit of complaining, either out loud or…


Did We Catch You Napping?

According to a 2009 survey, one-third of U.S. adults manage to nap on any given day of the week. If you’re among that percentage, are you taking the best nap that you can? Are naps beneficial? If you don’t take naps, should you? Why? A nap is an intentional or unintentional period of sleep for…


The Critical Importance of Vitamin D

The importance of maintaining optimal levels of vitamin D can’t be overstated. Vitamin D regulates the expression of hundreds of genes and is integral to biological functions that affect every bodily system. Vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency can trigger several generalized symptoms that you may have associated with other health conditions. It’s also called the…


Texas Acquires COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies, Bypassing Biden HHS Limits: Governor

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced his state has obtained its own supply of monoclonal antibodies, a type of treatment for COVID-19, in a move that bypasses the Biden administration’s limits. “Texas has obtained its own separate allocation of these monoclonal antibody treatments working around the limitations that President Biden has put on us so…


Metamorphosis: The Birth of a Dream

What is your dream? Do you know at what stage it is? What do you need to do next? In the past several years of my earth life, I have seen many of my dreams come to pass, and there are many more on the horizon. They are all at different stages of development and…


3 Shots Will Be ‘Optimal Regimen’ of COVID-19 Vaccination: Fauci

Practically everybody will be directed in the future to get a booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Anthony Fauci signaled on Tuesday. “Ultimately I believe that the optimal regimen for the vaccine for the mRNAs is going to include that third booster shot,” Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,…


The Silent Killer: High Blood Pressure

The call was a strange one and I will never forget it. I was seeing patients and was interrupted by my nurse. “The ER wants to talk with you, it’s an emergency.” I excused myself from the exam room, took the call. I heard the ER doc, who I knew, start mumbling about Dr. Dantzler…


COVID-19 Vaccine Should Not Be Mandated for Children: Dr. Scott Atlas

The COVID-19 vaccine should not be mandated for children since it does not “necessarily benefit” them like the vaccines required for school and child care, according to former White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. “Those vaccines that are mandated for children, even if you believe they should be mandated, are for diseases that are…


Delaware Mandates COVID-19 Vaccination for Teachers

Delaware teachers and other school staffers must get a COVID-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing. Gov. John Carney, a Democrat, and state health and education officials announced the mandate on Tuesday. The requirement will be formally laid out in an emergency regulation and is slated to take effect Nov. 1. It applies to over 12,000…


GSK to Develop Longer-Acting Therapy for HIV With Japan’s Shionogi

GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) said on Tuesday it would develop an HIV treatment with Japan’s Shionogi for use in regimens with dosing gaps of three months or more, as the drugmaker seeks to build on the success of its previous long-acting therapies. The British firm said it would pay Shionogi 20 million pounds ($27.36 million) upfront,…