by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 28, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
We now have three apparently safe and effective vaccines to help stop the current COVID-19 pandemic. The latest estimates are that the pandemic will not end until 70 to 90 percent of the North American population has some degree of immunity (JAMA, 2020;324(8):732)....
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 19, 2020 | Heart Health
High blood pressure puts you at increased risk for suffering a heart attack or stroke and damaging every organ in your body. Lowering high blood pressure helps to protect you from these complications (JAMA, 1970;213:1143-52). Blood pressure is usually at its lowest at...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 14, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, have announced that their COVID-19 vaccine appears to be more than 90 percent effective against the disease. Early data from their 44,000-person trial analyzed the first 94 cases of symptomatic COVID-19 among the participants...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Nov 6, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A study from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that repeated bouts of exercise slow the growth of, and help to prevent recurrences of, cancers (eLife, Oct 23, 2020;9). The authors showed, in both mice and humans, that exercising muscles release into the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 30, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
For many years I have been reporting on the work of Dr. Ajit Varki and others on Neu5Gc, a sugar-protein found in most mammals but not in humans, which may explain the association between eating red meat and increased risk for colon cancer (Genome Biol Evol, Jan 1,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 24, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
We are in the midst of a serious pandemic in which more than 34 million people have been infected and more than one million have already died worldwide. Before 2019, no human had been infected with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, that causes the disease called COVID-19....
