… the patients to take better care of themselves. If doctors also are evaluated on how often they inquire about mental health problems and addiction, the program will have the added potential of increasing access to mental health and substance abuse …
Day: January 13, 2017
Mother says blood donations saved child’s life
The Krumland family said giving blood is more important than most people will ever realize. It was donating blood that saved their baby boy, who was diagnosed with cancer.
A vaccine commission? Bad idea
… sort would be unnecessary and politically irresponsible. At worst, it could prove incredibly dangerous for public health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Drug Administration and the medical community at large have …
Larry ‘Duane’ McBrayer
… his lifelong church family at Bethel Baptist Church in Bremen, Georgia, for many years. Until only recently when his health became an issue, Duane continued to travel to annual convention singings across the South, where he practiced the historic …
Questionable “Young Blood” Transfusions Offered in U.S. as Anti-Aging Remedy
Just off a winding highway along the Pacific coast in Monterey, California, is a private clinic where people can pay $8,000 to have their veins pumped with blood plasma from teenagers and young adults. Jesse Karmazin is the entrepreneur who made the practice possible, by launching a clinical trial on the potential of “young blood” through his startup Ambrosia .