Dexamethasone
Two drugs have been shown to have positive benefits against COVID-19, one early in the illness, the other for the very sick. This is exciting medical professionals and inching us closer to potential treatment. Still, these results should be celebrated with a healthy dose of skepticism as there is still…
It seems every time we learn something about COVID-19, it is contradicted within days. The most recent about-face still has me spinning: We were first told that COVID-19 germs spread to other people before symptoms appear, called “asymptomatic shedding,” and it was estimated to happen for up to two weeks before symptoms appeared.
An online journal, Fertility and Sterility, published a meta-study (a study of studies) on childhood cancer incident in IVF-born children. The increased percent of cancers was frightening, 33%. However, there are so few incidences of childhood cancers (9% of all children, all cancers combined) that the increase would mean one…
