Disease

From MedScape, the entire video or transcript is worth the time.

News about the coronavirus is coming at us like a fire hose. Both the scientific literature and the popular media are basically all COVID all the time. Here are some recent interesting developments.

Let's start with the people attending the annual motorcycle event because, from a health point of view, it is easy: no significant social distancing or use of masks. So, shame on them. They have rights, but they also have responsibilities.

  Fred Lipfert, Ph.D., and Sheldon Lipsky 

Identifying skin cancer

The historians looked back at many of our prior pandemics; you know the litany, the Black Death, numerous episodes of cholera, and the Spanish Flu.

I’ve wondered about that last question for some time. Hypertension is a recognized COVID-19 co-morbidity, but a large portion of the population has hypertension; it didn’t seem to be a significant discriminator between little and lots of risk.

A new study published in BMJ examined if there was a link between natural hair color or dye and cancer. A lot of women color their hair, so this is certainly a worthwhile topic.

While there are many ways to define loneliness, the researchers, studying a cross-section of adults in the Netherlands, settled on this: 

The table seen below this paragraph was taken from a poster [1] at the European and International Congress on Obesity, which shows the number of individ