By Betty Mekdeci, Executive Director, Birth Defect Research for Children Government agencies are not just faceless entities...they are made up of some very good, very brave people as well as industry toadies.Our son was born in 1974 with a mostly missing right hand,...
By Myrto Angela Ashe, MD, MPH It has always been true, as Jonathan Swift asserted a few centuries ago, that “falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.” So how do we know what we know? Internet algorithms only worsen the problem of flying falsehoods. How much...
Dear Friends and Colleagues: In March and April 2020, my advice was sought regarding a patient with covid on a ventilator in New York. A few days later, a prominent UCSF pulmonologist, during one of the first grand rounds on covid, listed an intravenous vitamin C...
By Anna O'Malley MD April 7, 2021 It is spring. This year, watching the death-rebirth mystery unfold in all corners of the natural world, I feel the hopeful energy of reemergence in my own life. The light at the end of our pandemic tunnel is visible, though the...
If you’re planning to be vaccinated against COVID-19, you might be wondering if there’s anything you can do to optimize your vaccination response. The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) has developed a Pre-Vaccination Protocol with actions you can do by yourself as well as with your doctor that may improve your immune response to vaccination.
Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM), February 17, 2021, Notes written and compiled by Cynthia Li, MD
Freely accessible 90-minute webinar: COVID–19 Vaccines: Current Evidence and Clinical Considerations, video and video transcript.