When excessive menstruation pain isn't normal : why does it take so long to diagnose endometriosis?
Last week it became known a Spanish city council had decided to grant its female workers the option to take a day off when they were suffering from a...
Myocarditis: what is it, who is at risk and how is it recognized?
Now the majority of European citizens are being offered booster vaccin in order to enhance protection against COVID, the medical authorities have also decided to allow for the...
Early detection of dementia : amyloid plaques and tangled tau proteins
One of the biggest fears of people is to either develop cancer and/or to develop dementia later in life. One of the most commonly known forms of dementia is Alzheimer's disease....
Thrombosis, blood clotting and vitamin K
In the past month we've heard about a startling effect of vaccins on some people's immune system: a spontanous auto-immune reaction towards someone's own blood platelets causing both internal bleeding and...
Hearing problems and COVID-19: tinnitus explained
Among people suffering from what is called 'long-COVID' a new ailment sprang up, tinnitus. Not one that is commonly reported, but it came to the headlines recently when a the founder of a restaurant...
Plastics in our body
Only fairly recently we have become aware of the dangers of plastics in our environment. For a long time we thought these plastics would not be of any concern to us. However, invariably, most plastics end up somewhere in the...
Healthy bowel function: how does normal poop look like?
One of the major challenges during a heatwave is to drink enough water, so you don't end up dehydrated because the body evaporates so quickly.
One of the more painful results of...
Low-dose radiation therapy
Last week I listened to a Dutch podcast , which in general discusses news and politics, but for once, talked about low-dose radiatian therapy as a way to treat COVID-19. This made me curious enough that I wanted to find out...