I have had the good fortune of belonging to a neighborhood book club that meets once a month. Since the coronavirus and social distancing, we haven’t met until last night. One of the neighbors had the great idea of meeting online. And it was terrific! I wouldn’t have realized how important that was a few weeks ago, even though some elements of...
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You may have heard of a treatment for the coronavirus (COVID-19) in the news that sounds unusual. It involves injecting serum from someone who has recovered from COVID-19 into patients who are sick with COVID-19. Nobel Prize This type of treatment actually won Emil von Behring the first Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901.1 Behring was part of a cohort of...
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Are you looking for coronavirus information resources? Answers to your questions? We’ve discussed the importance of finding the right online resources in previous posts – those from reputable sources. With COVID-19, there is a lot of information online, some of it that is not reliable. General Coronavirus Information Of course there is the...
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Note: Information in this post reflects the information known at the time of writing and publishing it. However, as COVID-19 research and understanding is changing rapidly, it may become out of date by the time you read it. There has been enormous media attention on the coronavirus. Though we are not interested in being a part of the hype, we...
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You’ve probably seen the cold remedies and supplements that contain zinc and their promises of increased immunity against colds. Have you wondered if the marketing is true? Do Humans Need Zinc in Our Diet? In 1961, Dr. Anada Prasad and some colleagues wrote a case study for the American Journal of Medicine. Prasad had travelled to Iran for a research...
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