by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Apr 4, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Tight restrictions in the United States will continue. The president has announced that federal guidelines requiring most Americans to avoid non-essential travel, non-essential work, eating at bars and restaurants, and gathering in groups of more than 10, would be...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 31, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Charles Darwin was one of the most influential scientists of all time. He was the first person to clearly define evolution as selective breeding in which favorable variations in an organism are passed on, and unfavorable variations are dropped, so that the species on...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 31, 2020 | Heart Health
People who have had heart attacks are also at high risk for certain cancers because the same lifestyle factors increase risk for both and appear to be far more important than genetics in determining your likelihood to suffer both conditions. It works both ways. People...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 30, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The World Health Organization (WHO) gave the new coronavirus the name “COVID-19” on February 11, 2020, and declared it a pandemic on March 10, 2020. A review of 22 studies on similar human coronaviruses such as SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 28, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The United States now has the most cases of COVID-19 in the world because we were not prepared for the pandemic. COVID-19 first appeared in early December in a seafood and live animal market located next to a major train station in Wuhan, China. Three nearby...
