“Public health is an organized effort to protect and improve the health of populations through education, policy, and preventive programs (Table). Within public health, the concept of primordial prevention is well-defined as population-level efforts to prevent risk factors for incident or worsening disease, such as water sanitation systems. Primordial care is the individual-level equivalent: a person’s efforts to prevent the onset or worsening of sickness for himself or herself. This cognitive framing is a crucial distinction; individuals engaging in primordial care do not necessarily see themselves as sick or requiring treatment that would compel entry into the medical system. Individuals … Read More
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Once a suspect COVID treatment, now a cure for everything Excerpt – The idea that ivermectin could be a cancer-fighting agent does have some modest basis in reality: Preliminary studies have suggested that antiparasitic medications might inhibit tumor growth, and at least one ongoing clinical trial is evaluating ivermectin’s role as an adjunct to cancer treatment. That study has enrolled only nine patients, however, and the results so far show that just one patient’s tumor actually shrank, according to a recent scientific abstract. But these meager grounds for hope now support a towering pile of expectations. [..] a gaggle of … Read More