When Dr Gao Jin’s clinic closed during the coronavirus pandemic she ramped up virtual consultations from home, talking over her laptop with people from across China who were worried they might have caught Covid-19. After returning to work at her clinic in Chengdu, Sichuan province, she still puts aside […]
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From this week, primary schools in England can reopen for pupils in reception, year 1 and year 6, but some local authorities – including Durham and Lancashire – are against students returning from 1 June. If you’re child is continuing to study from home, we’ve found all the best resources […]
Cancel culture has come to medicine. Dr. Scott Atlas, who was chairman of neuroradiology at Stanford’s medical school until 2012 and more recently a senior fellow at the university’s Hoover Institution, has been singled out for professional erasure by 98 of his former Stanford medical, epidemiological, and health-policy colleagues because […]
In partnership with The Fresh Toast What roles do herbal and classic natural medicines have in common with modern medical research when it comes using cannabis for medicinal purposes? During the 2019 Cannabis Collaborative Conference in Portland, Oregon, Dr. Heather George, Doctor of Science in Oriental Medicine (DSOM), c-IAYT , TheLotusWay.org and AOMScholarshipFund.org, sought to address […]
I am often asked, “What is Culinary Medicine?” The answer usually involves a brief explanation of the multidisciplinary and evidence-based approaches to food, health, and wellness that form the foundation of the Culinary Medicine approach. This is something that I have covered in this column before (see “Culinary Medicine: A New […]
Visit the News Hub Vaccine may strengthen immune response to viral infections; trial to enroll up to 30,000 health-care workers Getty Images Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is the clinical coordinating center for an international trial aimed at evaluating on a large scale whether the MMR […]