Viruses
A COVID-19 political remedy to worry about
What can we learn about the Ivermectin craze for policy and decision making?
Could vitamin D be the reason why COVID-19 affects Hispanics and blacks the most?
The authors suggest that vitamin D can likely reduce severe late stages of COVID-19 infection (as more studies are needed to verify this), while certainly benefiting bone and muscle health. One reason for its possible positive effects is the role of vitamin D in regulating and suppressing the inflammatory cytokine “storm” that leads to severe respiratory problems in patients with COVID-19.
Need a cheap remedy to fight COVID-19?
Here I provide further details on papers that contributed to the Ivermectin hype, giving false hope to both the scientific community and the public, but were ultimately retracted because of unreliable and unsupported data and interpretations.
Bacteria
What’s your Latino background? You could be infected with Helicobacter Pylori
Here, I talk about a recent scientific paper showing that there is a difference in H. pylori seroprevalence, or frequency of infection, based on Hispanic/Latino cultural background and multiple factors associate with the disease.
