Marie Curie, Brilliant Heroine

Marie Curie, Brilliant Heroine

Madame Marie Curie was one of the most brilliant and hard-working people who ever lived. She won two Nobel Prizes and helped her husband and daughter each win one.  When she died in 1934 at age 66, her death certificate read that she died of pernicious anemia...
Too Much Skin Washing?

Too Much Skin Washing?

More than one million North Americans are diagnosed each year with skin cancers. Twenty percent of people have the bacterium called Staphylococcus epidermidis living on their skin. It produces molecules that have been shown to slow or stop the development of skin...
Another Reason Not to Take Calcium Pills

Another Reason Not to Take Calcium Pills

I have reported on studies showing that calcium pills do not help to prevent bone fractures. Another well-planned study shows that taking calcium pills, both with and without vitamin D, is associated with increased risk for pre-malignant serrated colon polyps (Gut,...
Too Much Skin Washing?

Herpes

If you get recurrent painful blisters with itching or tingling in your skin, around your mouth or in your genital area, check with your doctor who will usually do a culture of the blisters. If the culture shows that you have an infection with one of the two herpes...