Things I Am Reading

It might not be dementia: How Big Pharma is harming our senior citizens
People are taking more drugs than ever before and not always aware of their side effects and interactions. This “polypharmacy” can produce everything from falls and accidents to behavior that is quickly termed dementia in the elderly, even when it is clearly from drug effects.

Every City Has a Unique Microbial “Fingerprint”
From architecture to microbes, every city is different

Pancreatic cancer risk tied to specific mouth bacteria
Specifically, researchers found that men and women whose oral microbiomes included Porphyromonas gingivalis had an overall 59 percent greater risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

Chlorhexidine Tolerance and Its Role in Healthcare-Associated Infections
This requires a free subscription, but basically it says that about half of Staph aureus samples taken in a hospital were resistant to Chlorhexidine.   And the more they used it the higher that number was...

Telomere length tied to higher myocardial infarction risk 
Chronic endotoxemia shortens telomeres.  

Parasitic infection enables helpful bacteria to displace harmful ones
Infection with worms may counter inflammatory bowel diseases by triggering immune responses that change the mix of bacteria, or microbiome, in the gut.

Doctors for Cannabis Regulation
Yeah, but they're still claiming it's not healthy.  Just that criminalization is stupid.
All the research shows the opposite:   Marijuana has many beneficial metabolic and neurological effects.