Category Archives: Health Notes

Health Notes- Daily meditation may work as well as a popular drug

Posted on November 22, 2022 by tomdwyer

Daily meditation may work as well as a popular drug to calm anxiety, study finds from April Fulton on NPR News, Nov 2022: “Anxiety symptoms like restlessness, feelings of worry and dread, and sleep problems, can interfere with daily life, … Continue reading →

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Health Notes- New malaria vaccine is world-changing

Posted on October 26, 2022 by tomdwyer

New malaria vaccine is world-changing     New malaria vaccine is world-changing, say scientists from James Gallagher at BBC News: A malaria vaccine with “world-changing” potential has been developed by scientists at the University of Oxford.  The team expect it … Continue reading →

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Health Notes- Sniffing out Parkinson’s… literally

Posted on September 20, 2022 by tomdwyer

Health Notes Sniffing out Parkinson’s… literally.   Parkinson’s test: Woman who smelled disease on husband helps scientists from Elizabeth Quigley at BBC News:  A Scottish woman who found she could detect Parkinson’s through smell has inspired scientists to develop a … Continue reading →

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Health Notes- Another artificial sweetener… or is this “the One”?

Posted on August 22, 2022 by tomdwyer

Health Notes Another artificial sweetener… or is this “the One”?   In The Search For The Perfect Sugar Substitute, Another Candidate Emerges from Dan Charles on NPR’s “All Things Considered”:  There’s a new candidate in the century-old quest for perfect, … Continue reading →

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Health Notes- A Pharmaceutical Scientist Explains How Drugs Know Where to Go in The Body

Posted on July 8, 2022 by tomdwyer

A Pharmaceutical Scientist Explains How Drugs Know Where to Go in The Body Tom Anchordoquy in The Conversation, June 2022   When you take aspirin for a headache, how does the aspirin know to travel to your head and alleviate … Continue reading →

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Health Notes- Amazing progress in several cancer cures

Posted on June 5, 2022 by tomdwyer

Health Notes Amazing progress in several cancer cures We ran across two articles discussing amazing progress against the Emperor of Maladies that we thought you’d find interesting.  Going back in our own Health Notes archives we found a couple more … Continue reading →

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Health Notes- Should you reconsider your daily aspirin?

Posted on April 21, 2022 by tomdwyer

Health Notes Should you reconsider your daily aspirin?   A daily aspirin has been standard advice for years to reduce the chances of heart attack and stroke.  And now, of course, new science says it may be time to reconsider … Continue reading →

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Health Notes-  New hope for emphysema and COPD

Posted on March 16, 2022 by tomdwyer

Health Notes New hope for emphysema and COPD When we ran across first article below (“Drugs seem to help…”) we wanted to share it because, as far as we knew, there WAS no help for COPD other than treating the … Continue reading →

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Health Notes for Feb 2022- Hope for paralyzed mind and body

Posted on February 18, 2022 by tomdwyer

        Some of us live with paralysis, but all of us fear it.  A spinal cord injury breaks the communication between the brain and the body it controls, and nerves don’t grow back.  Spinal injuries have always … Continue reading →

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Health Notes- Why you shouldn’t get Covid just to ‘get it over with’

Posted on January 23, 2022 by tomdwyer

Covid Omicron has gone viral (sorry) and it looks like we may all get it eventually as the ‘pandemic’ moves to an ‘endemic’.  It may be tempting to go out and get Covid intentionally, just to get it over with, … Continue reading →

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