Month: January 2022

(BCN) – Nearly 4,000 Kaiser patients may have received slightly less than the recommended dose of their COVID-19 vaccination last fall at Kaiser Permanente’s Walnut Creek Medical Center, the health care provider said Monday. Kaiser is now contacting roughly 3,900 people who received a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine dose between Oct. 25 and Dec. 10. According to Kaiser’s statement, the patients may have received between .01 and .04 milliliters less than the recommended dose of .30 milliliters. Kaiser and medical experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that the difference between the administered dose and the recommended dose is negligible and was unlikely to result in reduced protection against COVID. However, Kaiser said it is...

PMFs are found in a variety of citrus fruit, with the most common form of the antioxidants found in the peels of tangerines, and oranges. The study found the compounds showed promise as an effective and natural alternative for lowering LDL cholesterol. Published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, the findings also established that PMFs shared marked similarities to a host of other plant compounds found in citrus fruit, that are linked to many health benefits. Separate research has shown a positive relationship between similar flavonoids, such as hesperidin, found in oranges and naringin from grapefruit.

New Zealand HRT was first successfully marketed as a ‘cure’ for menopause in the 1940s before a misreported study crashed sales in 2002 Niki Bezzant Mon 17 Jan 2022 20.30 EST For centuries the symptoms of menopause were documented, but women went through it with little intervention. It wasn’t until the advent of science as we know it that physicians (all male at the time obviously) started more commonly “treating” its symptoms. It’s clear now they had no idea what they were dealing with, since treatments ranged from the benign (cupping, cold water) to downright mutilation (clitoridectomy, anyone?). Suffice it to say, the history of misogyny in medicine goes way, way back; all founded in the idea of women as inferior, and of menstrual blood as evil and poisonous. Fast-forward to the ear...

If you're wondering whether that runny nose, sore throat or sneeze is simply allergies, just a cold, or possibly early signs of COVID-19 or the flu, you're not alone. With many experiencing cold-like symptoms, and with COVID and flu cases rising this winter, it can be hard to decipher what could be behind the onset of symptoms. Experts say the only real way to know the answer is to test, but until then, health officials say to treat any possible symptoms as COVID. "If you think it's a cold, if you think it's the flu, it's probably COVID," Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said in a press conference late last month. "We need you to stay home if you're not feeling well." Arwady said that now, particularly with the rise of om...