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Nutrition and Stroke
A Harvard Study, Nutrition and Stroke A recently released Harvard Study regarding plant-based food intake and stroke risk is in the news. It shows a modest association between healthy plant-based food intake with lower risk of stroke. Researchers concluded that there was a 10% lower total stroke risk among people eating the most healthy plant […]
Read MoreCould an anti-inflammatory diet improve your health?
Interest in the anti-inflammatory diet is increasing, according to Google Trends. But can some foods really reduce disease-causing inflammation – a condition linked to the immune system – and if so, who could benefit from the diet? What is inflammation? Inflammation is your body’s natural response to harm, such as infection, injury or toxin. When something […]
Read MoreThe Event 201 scenario- Pandemic Simulation
Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS, but it is more transmissible in the community setting by people with […]
Read MoreCOVID-19 Effects
The Rockefeller Foundation reports that America faces a hunger and nutrition crisis unlike any this country has seen in generations, a situation exacerbated by the pandemic, and calls for fundamental change in the system.A PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institute survey shows how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing the economy, the way we work and the health system.A New Yorker article discusses the […]
Read MoreObesity Care and Prevention: Less Death and Cancer?
Can obesity care and prevention lead to less death, cancer, and other complications of obesity? This question has been a hard one to answer. For one thing, we’re not too good at prevention. Obesity rates keep going up, not down. However, on the plus side, we have pretty good data on preventing death, cancer, and […]
Read MoreBoosting immune system a potential treatment strategy for COVID-19
Front-line health-care providers work with seriously ill COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. New research from scientists at Washington University School of Medicine suggests that the immune systems of such patients can’t do enough to protect them from the virus. The researchers are proposing that boosting the activity […]
Read MoreCalifornia coronavirus case tracker and map of Bay Area COVID-19 testing sites that don’t require a doctor’s referral.