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1 week ago | 
kevinmd.com | Marc Arginteanu |Martha Rosenberg |Bryan Thomas |Molly Walker
Did you have chickenpox as a kid? If the answer is yes (which it is for most of us), you’re at risk of getting shingles. Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. After one recovers from chickenpox, the virus remains dormant in one’s nerve cells. Later in life, if the virus reactivates (which depends on factors like age, stress, or a weakened immune system), it can cause shingles.
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2 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | J. Leonard Lichtenfeld |Andrew Williams |Jennifer Romanello |Martha Rosenberg
“Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.”Didn’t take long, did it? The quote in the title is from George Santayana. The movie is It’s a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey along with Clarence Odbody, who played Clarence the angel. The scenes are from the moments when Clarence shows George what the world would have been without him and his value to his family, his friends, and his community. Remember those scenes.
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3 weeks ago | 
newsblaze.com | Martha Rosenberg
A view of international border small weekly market, near India Bangladesh International Border in Indian West Bengal State sector (specially - Coochbehar, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Murshidabad, Malda & South Dinajpur districts), which is a famous 'Cattle Corridor.'Does anything separate rural and urban communities more than the use of animals for food?
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3 weeks ago | 
foodsafety.einnews.com | Martha Rosenberg
Share Tweet Share Email ShareDoes anything separate rural and urban communities more than the use of animals for food? While rural inhabitants often live close to farms and hunted wildlife and accept the practice, urban dwellers can cringe at images of the “processing” of the very food they eat.
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3 weeks ago | 
kevinmd.com | Christopher Foster |Susan Levenstein |Sean Lee Jordan |Martha Rosenberg
Introduction: Financing cancer or fighting it? Tobacco remains the single largest preventable cause of cancer worldwide, responsible for nearly 8 million deaths annually, including 1.2 million from exposure to secondhand smoke. Despite decades of public health efforts, global tobacco use continues to pose a significant threat to cancer prevention. The question remains: Are we truly winning the war against the world’s leading carcinogen, or are we merely negotiating with death?
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1 month ago | 
kevinmd.com | Martha Rosenberg |John Connolly |Brian A. Primack |Sarah Kwon
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Urologist Diana Londoño discusses her article, “From healers to influencers: How fear took over health care advice.” Diana addresses the concerning trend of physicians using fear-inducing tactics on social media, which she argues prioritizes engagement over genuine patient well-being. Instead of guiding and comforting, this approach often leaves people feeling scared and confused about their health choices.
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1 month ago | 
kevinmd.com | Jennifer Jonsson |Martha Rosenberg |Michael McGuire |Rebecca Miller
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes!Practicing internist and psychiatrist Muhamad Aly Rifai discusses his article, “How America became overmedicated—and what we can do about it.” He raises concerns about the high rate of psychotropic medication use in the U.S., citing CDC data suggesting nearly 1 in 4 adults may be taking these drugs, often without clear long-term plans or exit strategies.
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1 month ago | 
dissidentvoice.org | Martha Rosenberg
“Recommend ‘Heaven’ to your followers?” reads the punchline of a recent cartoon depicting a person who has arrived at the pearly gates. What was the name of your first pet reads a similar St. Peter cartoon about social media and the Internet. While we try to laugh, social media has devolved from its original promise of an online identity and the chance to find like-minded peers and express an opinion to what is sometimes an opportunist and capitalistic monster.
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1 month ago | 
counterpunch.org | Martha Rosenberg
The deaths of two people and illness of one from a possible fatal and rare brain disease clustering in Oregon have public health officials and medical professionals worried. They fear a returning threat from the prion disease mad cow (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) which roiled US markets 20 years ago. It led to devastating international boycotts of US beef, agricultural market upheavals, medical panic and widespread distrust of the US government which was seen to mismanage the outbreak.
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1 month ago | 
mainstreamweekly.net | Martha Rosenberg
Drugmakers in the US have been exempted from tariffs but the pills and capsules may soon hit the fan. They are lobbying US president Donald Trump for more time to absorb tariffs and perhaps move their manufacturing sites according to published reports. Many realize the trillion dollar a year Pharma industry has “captured “the US Food and Drug Administration or FDA, the US Congress with its lobbyists and US news sites with ad revenue. The outgoing Commission had 51 financial Pharma links).
