If worrying about the global pandemic has left you clinically depressed, there may now be good news. A study in the Lancet, a respected British medical journal, is reporting that fluvoxamine, a […]
Fear not
COVID’s best friend
Eighteen months into the worst pandemic of the 21st century, with a newly evolved (or created) pathogen now threatening a miracle prophylactic vaccine, one might think there would finally be some discussion […]
Fooling ourselves?
Leave it to the Swedes – who zigged when everyone else was sagging in the wake of the global pandemic – to question the conventional wisdom that so-called non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) […]
Fat madness
DETROIT – Traveling across America again after a year of pandemic isolation, it is impossible to avoid noticing the widebodies flooding airports. And we’re not talking airplanes here. Walking through the concourses […]
Dangerous air
News analysis A year into the deadliest pandemic of the Digital Age, the U.S. government is finally being pressured to accept what has appeared obvious for a long time: SARS-CoV-2, the virus […]
Masked and unmasked
News analysis A Danish study of masking branded as “controversial” long before it saw the light of day finally emerged in print on Wednesday only to add to the confusion over […]
Sick nation
As a child of post-war America, I grew up witness to the growth of a nation of largesse writ large. Nature is now making us pay the price. Nowhere has the SARS-CoV-2 […]
Endemic
When, oh, when are political leaders going to accept that the latest pandemic is over, and what we are all dealing with today is a new and sometimes deadly endemic disease different […]
COVID and obesity
New studies are emerging to further define the link between COVID-19 and obesity, and at least one of them offers some hope for the over-weight who catch the disease caused by the […]
Mask the cat
Forget the scare about dogs being potential carriers of the pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus; it’s cats that are the real danger, according to Chinese researchers probing potential non-human carriers. And maybe too […]
