Eighty-year-old Judith Smentkiewicz lay dying of COVID in a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital when her family asked that she be given a drug called ivermectin.
It’s an anti-parasitic medication that has shown potential effectiveness against coronavirus in studies. Judith’s family figured there was nothing to lose by trying it. Judith was on a ventilator and doctors gave her only a 20% chance to live.… Read More
Let’s face it…
Coronavirus vaccines were not created under ideal conditions.
Labs put them together in record time. They were produced far faster than any other vaccines in history.[1]
They were tested in relatively small clinical trials that lasted only a few months. Previous vaccines were tested for years, some for as long as a decade.
The vaccines were so created and tested so quickly, that the FDA didn’t have the data to approve them using its usual procedures.… Read More
More than 3 million Americans have been told by their doctors that they have a nut allergy.
Typically, they are diagnosed after eating something containing nuts and having a reaction. When they go to their doctor, they are given a skin prick or blood test to confirm their sensitivity.
If the test is positive, their doctor tells them to stay away from all nuts.… Read More
For decades, doctors have been prescribing Valium as a standard treatment for acute lower back pain.[1]
The idea was that this powerful sedative would relax the muscles to ease the pain.[2]
But a study finds that Valium (diazepam) works no better than a sugar pill for back pain.
In fact, patients taking a sugar pill actually recover faster.
The research looked at 114 patients in New York whose back pain was so severe that they went to an emergency room.… Read More
It’s not getting any easier.
More than a year into the pandemic, Americans say they are more stressed out than at any time since the coronavirus crisis began.[1]
A recent nationwide poll found that 84% of those surveyed reported at least one episode of prolonged stress in the previous two weeks.
Many people are turning to pharmaceutical medications for relief.… Read More
The media world was rocked by Rush Limbaugh’s death on Wednesday at age 70.
His wife Kathryn announced that he died from complications of lung cancer.
Before he died, the famed radio personality told listeners that he began suffering from shortness of breath about a year ago. He went to a doctor, and his grim cancer diagnosis followed just days later.… Read More