The USCGC Ingham Maritime Museum hosted the very last phase of the two-week Dive Medicine Training Program on Tuesday, which culminated in a practice high-angle rescue mission.The training program, one of four wilderness medicine training components held by the Uniformed Services University of… For the complete article, please pick up a copy of The Citizen… Read More »
A medicine ball is like the kale of gym equipment—you know it’s good for you, but you’ve got no clue what to do with it. If that hits home, then good news: Trainer Tatiana Lampa shares 23 different medicine ball exercises below that are perfect for challenging your entire body. Time: 18 to 25 minutes Equipment: 3… Read More »
Alex Lickerman, MD | Physician | November 8, 2018 Figuring out what’s actually true is far harder than most people realize. Our brains are both hypothesis-generating machines and incredibly credulous. As a result, most of the things we believe to be true turn out to be false. We don’t just mistakenly believe that vaccines cause… Read More »
The recalled lot will have “Westminster Pharmaceuticals” and “GSMS Inc.” on the label, according to the FDA list. Another heart medicine, valsartan, has also been recalled recently due to contamination. Irbesartan is an angiotensin II receptor blocker, or ARB. This is a drug that blocks a potent chemical in the blood called anigiotensin, which causes… Read More »
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to James P. Allison of the United States and Tasuku Honjo of Japan for their work on unleashing the body’s immune system to attack cancer, a breakthrough that has led to an entirely new class of drugs and brought lasting remissions to many patients… Read More »