Combination Pill to Prevent Heart Attacks?

Combination Pill to Prevent Heart Attacks?

A respected group of researchers found that after a patient had a heart attack, taking one pill containing three heart drugs was more effective than taking similar prescribed drugs in separate pills during three years of follow-up (New Engl J of Med, August 26, 2022)....
Adolf Hitler: A War On Drugs

Adolf Hitler: A War On Drugs

After the end of World War II in 1945, the U.S. military commissioned captured German doctor Erwin Giesing and six of Hitler’s other physicians to write a detailed 225-page report of Adolf Hitler’s medical records. They showed that while he was Chancellor of the Third...
How Sugar Can Cause Obesity and Diabetes

How Sugar Can Cause Obesity and Diabetes

A recent study on mice helps us understand how eating sugar can cause diabetes and obesity (Cell, August 29, 2022). Eating excess sugar can cause loss of protective T Helper cells (TH17 cells), to allow overgrowth of harmful bacteria that damage the linings of your...