Honey May Help With Chronic Eczema of the Ear Canal

Image from Amazon . Please note that this honey was NOT used in the study described There was an interesting paper from the Netherlands reg...

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Surgeons Should Operate Naked to Decrease Risk of Surgical Site Infections

Image courtesy of adamr at  FreeDigitalPhotos.net This controversial claim was actually made by a well-respected surgeon, Dr. Dellinger , a...

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On preventing the deleterious effects of CMV: implications for some autism?

" Anxiety drug may prevent common virus that causes birth defects " went one of the headlines covering t he study results publishe...

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MoBa does prenatal fever and autism risk

' MoBa does.. ' is fast becoming a common title on this blog ( see here and see here ). Referring to the  Norwegian Mother and Chil...

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The PANDAS hypothesis is supported

PANDAS -  pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infection - is, as the name suggests, a condition /...

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Wax Removal of Nasal Hair

Screenshot of video by Sepi Balini Makeup artist and vlogger Sepi Balini posted a video on instagram showing her nasal hair being removed b...

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Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and autism continued

I wanted to briefly talk about the paper by Francesca Garofoli and colleagues [1] on congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and autism...

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