Category: Health

New CDC Advisory Forces Vaccination on Pregnant Women

Tom Patriot

In a new COVID-19 alert, the CDC called for “urgent action to vaccinate pregnant women.”  The advisory stressed that the vaccines are safe and effective in pregnancy. They also insist that pregnant women “are at increased risk for severe illness.” “Pregnancy can be both a special time and also a stressful time. Pregnancy during a pandemic is an added concern for families. I strongly encourage those who are pregnant or considering pregnancy to talk with their healthcare provider… about the protective benefits of the COVID-19 vaccine… to keep their babies…

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The Biden Administration Wasted 15 Million COVID-19 Vaccines

Tom Patriot

The Biden administration is doing a terrible job of managing our resources for fighting COVID… According to NBC, there are several reasons why vaccine doses get discarded:  Cracked vial Error diluting the vaccine Storage malfunction Lack of demand Unused doses in an opened vial Pharmacies and state governments in the US have wasted at least 15 million doses of vaccines since March. The numbers may still be an undercount and are expected to rise. In data from the CDC, they found that 4 national pharmacy chains reported more than one…

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IS COCONUT OIL GOOD FOR YOUR SKIN? DERMATOLOGISTS WEIGHS IN

Tom Patriot

When we’re told that an ingredient can do it all, we’re immediately both intrigued and suspicious. Take coconut oil, for example. It’s an ingredient that many have touted for benefits across multiple categories — from cleaning surfaces to hydrating the skin — but is that truly the case? In particular, is coconut oil actually good for your skin? To get some answers, we turned to two of our consulting, board-certified dermatologists, Dendy Engelman, MD, and Dhaval Bhanusali, MD. “Oil-based products are one of the best ways to add moisture back into the skin,”…

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Could coffee be the secret to fighting obesity?

Tom Patriot

Scientists from the University of Nottingham have discovered that drinking a cup of coffee can stimulate ‘brown fat’, the body’s own fat-fighting defenses, which could be the key to tackling obesity and diabetes. The pioneering study, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, is one of the first to be carried out in humans to find components which could have a direct effect on ‘brown fat’ functions, an important part of the human body which plays a key role in how quickly we can burn calories as energy. Brown adipose tissue…

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Your spending data may reveal aspects of your personality

Tom Patriot

How you spend your money can signal aspects of your personality, according to research published in Psychological Science. Analyses of over 2 million spending records from more than 2,000 individuals indicate that when people spend money in certain categories, this can be used to infer certain personality traits, such as how materialistic they are or how much self-control they tend to have. “Now that most people spend their money electronically – with billions of payment cards in circulation worldwide – we can study these spending patterns at scale like never before,”…

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