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LAST Wednesday, the Pennsylvania judge on the Bill Cosby sexual assault charges refused to throw out the case against the famous Afro-American comedian, filed by a woman and alleged by more than a dozen others. The allegation…
WHILE the initial stage of our body’s protective auto-repair mechanism when we acquire any type of acute infection (bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoan, etc) involves inflammation, which significantly helps in the healing process, “silent” chronic inflammation all of…
LOOKING back in review, there were some fascinating news in medicine this past year, a few of them controversial, especially in infectious diseases and cancer screening and prevention. E-cigarettes are more dangerous A study, published in the…
THE US-FDA has issued a warning on the use of tanning beds at home and at tanning salons: tanning increases the risk for melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, up to 59 percent! More than 2.5 million teens,…
IT IS the season to be jolly, but about 18.5 percent (1 in 5) or 43.8 million adults in the United States experiences some type of mental illness during this time of the year, or in a…
MORE than a 33 percent of Americans and 21 percent of Filipinos are overweight or obese. This has transformed a surgical procedure that was once reserved for a handful of dangerously obese patients to a very popular…
SINCE Charlie Sheen, 50, star of the hit TV series “Two and a Half Men,” revealed for the first time on November 17, 2015 in his interview on TODAY with Matt Lauer, that he had tested positive…
FOR the past 15 years, I have been writing about the unhealthy effects of soft drinks on every consumer, especially on children. More and more evidences from multiple clinical studies have shown that these beverages, in all…
MY COLUMN on “Aspirin, the Wonder Drug,” came out in 2002, when this common household item was in the spotlight for sometime for its new role in staving off heart attack, medically termed Acute Myocardial Infarction (the…
ON OCT. 29, 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that “the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans and processed meat as carcinogenic to humans.“…
MORE than 7 million persons in the United States have gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) and some of them are taking antacids; more are on Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) pills to reduce acid secretion in the stomach. For…
Are nuts good for us? Yes, they are, according to clinical investigations upon which the US-FDA based its approval in 1997 for nuts and whole-oat foods to carry the labels “touting possible heart benefits.” While animal fats…
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