In my view the short answer is fear. Our mind is a bundle of desires (for pleasure) and fear (of pain). For some of us, under certain circumstances like Covid, our habits breaks away, and with them our confidence. For example, along with human lives losses, Covid changed our habits, as we suddenly found ourselves to live almost entirely at hom...

In case of a pandemic, the R-number refers to the 'effective reproduction number' of the virus, and simply put, it's a way of measuring an infectious disease's ability to spread. So for Covid [4] the R number quantify the average number of people that one infected person will pass the virus to. [1] An R value of 1 is a crucial threshold, because th...

​ The medicines in the market follow the law of demand in that market. [1] When people (consumers) demand more medicines, suppliers see an opportunity to increase their profit, and produce more medicines to meet the demand (at any price level). While this describe how a competitive market work, it doesn't answer your question. In general people ask...

​  The manifesto of Natural Medicine [1] highlight the values that a Natural Doctor should practice, in order to promote a Natural Medicine based on scientific evidence [2] , and closer to the people. Natural Medicine, or Naturopathy is a body of practices aimed to help the body heal itself. Natural Medicine suggest the use of herbs, massage, ...

​ According to Cambridge dictionary, this is the definition of science : ( knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world , especially by watching , measuring , and doing experiments , and the development of theories to describe the results of these activities  [1] When it comes to Natural Medicine [2] &...

​ Albert Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. [1] Devoting himself to a study of the biochemistry of muscular action, he discovered a protein in muscle that he named "act...

​ With the discovery of modern medicine, based on scientific research, people started being vaccinated and cured for several diseases, that only few decades ago were thought to be incurable.  Modern medicine also play a crucial role in first aid, where a fraction of time can separate life from death. The value provided to the community by Medi...

Vaccines contain the same germs that cause disease. (For example, measles vaccine contains measles virus, and Hib vaccine contains Hib bacteria.) But they have been either killed or weakened to the point that they don't make you sick. Some vaccines contain only a part of the disease germ. A vaccine stimulates your immune system to produce antibodie...

Consumer genetic tests could be giving false reassurance to those at heightened risk of cancers, according to findings presented at an international conference this week. The study, by clinical genetic testing company Invitae, revealed that tests for breast and bowel cancer risk by direct-to-consumer companies such as 23andMe give negative results ...

It's a struggle that many people face as the years go by, and now scientists have revealed why people gain weight as they age. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that lipid turnover in the fat tissues - the rate at which fat cells are removed and stored - decreases during ageing. This makes it easier to gain weight, even if y...

Patients live longer if they do not take antibiotics in month before immunotherapy  [1]   Taking antibiotics in the month before starting immunotherapy dramatically reduces a cancer patient's chances of survival, according to a small but groundbreaking study. Scientists at Imperial College London believe antibiotics strip out helpful...

For Dr Amanda Brown, a village GP in Buckinghamshire, the idea of working in a prison was so off the radar that when the offer came, her first reaction was surprise that such jobs existed. "It had never occurred to me that doctors even worked in prisons," she says. "How stupid was I? But I thought it sounded fun. Interesting. Different." The offer ...

Snakebites kill more than 200 people a day around the world, but Thai firefighter Pinyo Pookpinyo was one of the lucky ones. When the tip of his thumb was bitten by a king cobra, he made it to a Bangkok hospital within 15 minutes. There, he was given a serum that stopped the venom, which can be fatal, from attacking his nervous system. "The doctor ...

For years, the foundations of cancer treatment were surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Over the last two decades, targeted therapies like imatinib (Gleevec®) and trastuzumab (Herceptin®)—drugs that target cancer cells by homing in on specific molecular changes seen primarily in those cells—have also cemented themselves as standard treatm...

Eating even a moderate amount of red or processed meat is linked with an increased risk of colorectal (bowel) cancer, according to a new study published Wednesday. People who ate 76 grams of red and processed meat per day -- that's in line with current guidelines and roughly the same as a quarter-pound beef burger -- had a 20% higher chance of deve...

Cancer.Net Editorial Board ​ Proton therapy is a type of radiation treatment that uses protons to treat cancer. It's also called proton beam therapy. A proton is a positively charged particle. At high energy, protons can destroy cancer cells. Doctors may use proton therapy alone. Or, they may combine it with other treatments, such as standard radia...

Scientists have long found a possible link between anticholinergic drugs and an increased risk of dementia. A study published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday suggests that the link is strongest for certain classes of anticholinergic drugs -- particularly antidepressants such as paroxetine or amitriptyline, bladder antimuscarinics su...

​ Genome editing (also called gene editing) is a group of technologies that give scientists the ability to change an organism's DNA. These technologies allow genetic material to be added, removed, or altered at particular locations in the genome. Several approaches to genome editing have been developed. A recent one is known as CRISPR-Cas9, which i...

Prof. Roy Taylor , Newcastle University ​ A body of research putting people with Type 2 diabetes on a low calorie diet has confirmed the underlying causes of the condition and established that it is reversible. A body of research putting people with Type 2 diabetes on a low calorie diet has confirmed the underlying causes of the condition and estab...

Gene therapy is a cancer treatment that is still in the early stages of research. [1] Genes are coded messages that tell cells how to make proteins. Proteins are the molecules that control the way cells behave. Our genes decide what we look like and how our body works. We have many thousands of separate genes. Genes are made of DNA and they are in ...