Category: Your Health

  • PART 2: Ivermectin for Covid

    Submitted by Linda Sutter – January 22, 2021 credit to Front Line Covid Critical Care (FLCCC) NIH Revises Treatment Guidelines for Ivermectin for the Treatment of COVID-19 Ivermectin is Now a Therapeutic Option for Doctors & Prescribers NEW YORK, N.Y. — JANUARY 15, 2021 One week after Dr. Paul Marik and Dr. Pierre Kory—founding members…

  • How to Fight Covid At Home

    How to Fight Covid At Home

    From Tetelle Fridrich who copied it from a friend – December 30, 2020 No one ever talks about how to fight Covid at home. I came down with Covid in November. I went to the hospital, running a fever of 103, a rapid heart beat, and other common symptoms that come with Covid. While I…

  • Good News About COVID 19

    Good News About COVID 19

    By Samuel Strait – December 21, 2020 – Cartoon credit to TOM JANSSEN, THE NETHERLANDS It might seem that the Grinch has stolen Christmas in the year 2020, butall is not as bad as it might seem in this year of COVID 19.  While theMedia, Politicians, and Public Health Autocrats continue to bleat aboutthe horrors…

  • Water Consumption.  How important is it?

    Water Consumption. How important is it?

    By Donna Westfall – December 20, 2020 – You’ve heard of dehydration; a lack of enough water to carry out normal bodily functions. But did you know that even mild dehydration can create problems? You will walk around lethargic and not know why. What’s the solution? Drink more water and/or consume more foods and beverages…

  • The problems with flu shots

    By Donna Westfall – January 24, 2019 – In the US, flu shots are recommended for everyone 6 months of age and older per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The best time to get flu shots is between Halloween and Thanksgiving and through the winter months up to the end of February.…

  • Acupuncture is catching on

    By Donna Westfall – December 12, 2018 – China is credited with the theory and practice of acupuncture going back 6,000 years BC before needles were even invented.  Instead sharpened stones and bones were used.  The philosophy behind acupuncture is called “Qi” pronounced “chee.”  This belief is that there is energy in everything. The energy…

  • Silly and Serious Things

    Silly and Serious Things

    By Donna Westfall – December 11, 2018 – This morning at the Daily Town Hall Meeting that starts at 6 am in Fisherman’s Restaurant, regular attendee, Hank, told the story of British soldiers dying from dysentery during World War II.  Take a look at the picture to the left.  Looks like briquettes, doesn’t it?  It’s…

  • New Urgent Care Clinic Open in Crescent City

    Redwood Urgent Care:   Quality, affordable care, open Monday through Saturday 286 M St., Highway 101 South, Crescent City (707) 460-1919 Del Norte county patients needing walk-in treatment for most medical conditions now have an affordable option–Redwood Urgent Care at 286 M St. (off highway 101 south near Safeway). Experienced providers treat everything from colds,…

  • HIV/AIDS virus updates

    By Donna Westfall – December 1, 2018 – Do you remember first hearing about AIDS?  Although the HIV/AIDS virus was detected in California and New York in 1981, it wasn’t until the early 1990’s that I actually met people with the illness.  The first two were gay men in Southern California.  One was my insurance…

  • Are you at risk because of low levels of Vitamin D?

    By Donna Westfall – November 29, 2018 – At this morning’s Daily Town Hall Meeting (meets from 6 – 7 am at Fisherman’s Restaurant, facilitated by Sup. 5th District, Bob Berkowitz who is in San Diego with all the other supervisors this week), someone brought up the necessity of taking Vitamin D3 supplements especially at…