Day: April 15, 2020
Interview with Terry Wahls, MD on a New Study on Therapeutic Lifestyle for MS
Terry Wahls, MD has some exciting news. She has a new update of her book, The Wahls Protocol. And, very soon, a new study will be released that compares whether a therapeutic lifestyle (diet, stress reduction and exercise) is inferior to disease-modifying drug treatments in terms of reducing multiple sclerosisRead
Aspirin May Reduce Risk of Several Digestive Tract Cancers
Aspirin is associated with a reduction in the risk of developing several digestive tract cancers, including some that are almost invariably fatal, such as pancreatic and liver cancers. The largest and most comprehensive analysis to date of the link between aspirin and digestive tract cancers, published in the leading cancerRead
New England J of Medicine Study Stresses Need for Integration of Mind Body Medicine
In a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and from UC Davis Health call for broader use of mind-body practices. In a time when meditation, yoga and mindfulness increase in popularity forRead
JAMA: Rates of Co-infection Between SARS-CoV-2 and Other Respiratory Pathogens
The following is an excerpt followed by the full text from a recent JAMA study on co-infection between SARS-COV-2 and other respiratory pathogens. ABSTRACT/ “As of April 3, 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) had caused 972 303 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and 50 322 deaths worldwide.1 EarlyRead
COVID-19: NCCIH Director Helene Langevin on the NIH Integrative Center’s Response
The push for evidence to assist in formulating more effective clinical response to the COVID-19 pandemic is awakening scores of research projects and multipliers more of recommended directions. In the integrative sphere, a team led by Lise Alschuler, ND from the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative MedicineRead