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Making Vaccines to Stop the COVID-19 Pandemic


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Some Cases of Dementia Have Effective Treatments


Protecting Yourself from COVID-19


Healthful Lifestyles to Prevent Cancer


History of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome


Night-Time Leg Cramps


Recent News on COVID-19


Potential Treatments for COVID-19


Getting Frequent Infections Can Precede Cancer Diagnosis


A First Vaccine for COVID-19


Why Obesity Increases Risk of Death from COVID-19 or Influenza


Potential Drugs, Treatments and Vaccines for COVID-19


Latest Advice on the COVID-19 Pandemic


The Current Coronavirus Pandemic – Updated


Treatment of COVID-19


The Search for Drugs to Treat COVID-19


Large Doses of Vitamin D Can Be Harmful


Lifestyle Changes Do Help to Prevent Cancers and Heart Attacks


Alcohol At Any Dose Can Increase Cancer Risk



You should never suffer from frostbite: painful freezing that can cause permanent loss of skin, and can be followed by loss of fingers, ears, toes, or even arms and legs. You get plenty of warning before your skin starts to freeze. First your fingers feel cold and then your skin starts to burn or itch.

Heart Disease and Cancers Share Many Risk Factors

The risk factors for a heart attack are also risk factors for many cancers. People who are at 20 percent increased risk for suffering a heart attack in 10 years are three times more likely to develop cancer in 10 years, while those who develop a heart attack, heart failure or atrial fibrillation are seven times more likely to develop a cancer.

Cold Hands – Raynaud’s Phenomenon

If your fingers turn white and start to hurt when you are out in the cold, you may have a condition called Raynaud’s phenomenon. When your body temperature starts to drop, your brain sends signals along nerves to shut blood flow to your hands and the skin turns white.

Sunlight May Help to Prevent Auto-Immune Diseases by Altering Gut Bacteria

Lack of vitamin D may change the colon bacteria to an overabundance of harmful bacteria to cause inflammation that increases risk for autoimmune diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, lupus and some types of arthritis.

Breakthrough Research from Winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine

2019 Nobel Prize honors the discovery of how your body responds when you can't meet your needs for oxygen. Their groundbreaking research is now being used to treat certain cancers, strokes, infections, anemia, heart attack risks, and some eye diseases that can cause blindness.

Inflammation Can Help or Harm

Your body uses inflammation to protect you from invading germs and to heal injuries. When a germ gets into your body, you make cells and proteins to kill that germ. As soon as the germ is gone, your immune system is supposed to dampen down and stop making large amounts of these cells and antibodies.

Being Overweight Increases Cancer Risk

A study of more than two million people showed that being overweight markedly increases risk for at least nine different cancers in men (bladder, colorectum, gallbladder, kidney, liver, lung, lymphatic system, pancreas, stomach) and eleven cancers in women (gallbladder, kidney, liver, lung, lymphatic system, ovaries, pancreas, stomach, uterus, cervix, and endometrium).