Harm Reduction

I’ve written lately about the several thousand clinical treatments and studies our first-responding physicians tried, but a new study seeks to understand how our institutions tried to identify the signal from the noise and create guidelines.

It could be worse, though – if I were writing this in, say, November or December instead of May, then the ground would be contracting, forcing radon out of pore spaces, and radon levels would be even higher.

     

Buried deep in the December 2020 COVID relief bill was an odd provision that had nothing to do with helping Americans financially crippled by the pandemic:

The background of sepsis

The following is the essence of the controversy:

One of the lessons of the pandemic has been how where we live influences our susceptibility to disease.

In the last two pieces, we talked about how radiation affects the body and might affect astronauts.

Those of us living on Earth are in a privileged location with regards to radiation.

The Precautionary Principle The Precautionary Principle has been adapted by the European Union (EU) and is being used more frequently in the US.