by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 19, 2020 | Other Diseases & Conditions
Today there are no drugs that have been proven to treat the coronavirus, COVID-19, but a study from China showed that the inexpensive anti-malarial drug, Chloroquine phosphate, was safe and effective in shortening the course and decreasing symptoms in patients...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 16, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Bobbie Battista was one of the original CNN cable news anchors, starting in 1981 and continuing to broadcast there for 20 years. She reported on: • the fall of the Berlin Wall, • the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, • the Gulf War, • the terrorist attacks on...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 14, 2020 | Nutrition
Probiotics are foods or supplements containing healthful bacteria that pass to your colon when you eat them. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health reports that close to four million adults in the United States use probiotics for weight loss,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 9, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Eva Szekely was brought up in Nazi-occupied Hungary in the 1930s and 1940s. Six million Jews were killed during the holocaust in Europe, including 70 percent of the Jewish population in Hungary. When she was 17, in the winter of 1944, members of Hungary’s fascist...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 8, 2020 | Nutrition
Two highly-respected Harvard professors, Dr. Walter C. Willett and Dr. David S. Ludwig, think that North Americans don’t need to drink milk (N Engl J Med, Feb 13, 2020; 382:644-654). An earlier comprehensive review of the world’s literature came to the...
