Approximately one million Americans per year take high doses of prednisone and related drugs. While these medicines may be necessary to treat serious illnesses, they may also have unpleasant, and even devastating, side effects, including changes in mood, weight, and physical strength, and vulnerability to infection. In 1997, after acclaimed flutist Eugenia Zukerman was prescribed… Read More »
A fascinating look at a bizarre, forgotten epidemic from the national bestselling author of The American Plague. In 1918, a world war raged, and a lethal strain of influenza circled the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it spread… Read More »
When a child coughs, parents are stressed and alarmed especially with coughing that runs up to two weeks and which bother and beat the child. Some coughing also comes with vomiting, and leaves the child drained. In fact, a child can cough the hardest at night, and this robs her of sleep which her body… Read More »