WELLPOINT NUTRACEUTICALS: HERBS + INFLUENZA Herb therapies for influenza are not specific for the viral strain. Herb therapy applied to address the first signs of influenza, might prevent the infection from developing into full symptomatic disease. Instead, they may have general actions that work to help boost the immune system to help eliminate the virus [...]Read more

HEADLINES IMUN RX The Big One is coming, and it’s going to be a flu pandemic - Dr. Sanjay Gupta Chief Medical Correspondent CNN. Experts say we are ‘due’ for one. When it happens it will probably have a greater impact on humanity than anything else currently happening in the world. When most people hear [...]Read more

GLOBAL TRAVEL Humans travel in numbers and at speeds unprecedented in history. Travelers visit remote areas as well as major population centers. Humans may be displaced because of social, economic, or political upheavals or extreme events and environmental disasters. The elimination of spatial and temporal barriers, especially by long-distance air transport, means that humans can [...]Read more

GLOBAL SENIOR The slow and inexorable increase in the number of older individuals, will have a considerable impact on healthcare services. Those over the age of 65 currently travel more frequently and more widely than either their parents or grandparents. Another factor contributing to the problem is the way the globe is now so closely [...]Read more

GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY WHO (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION) NEW REPORT Global health officials are grappling with a “serious lack” of new antibiotics to fight the proliferation of SUPERBUGS. At present, there are a reported 50 new antibiotics in development to treat superbugs- but only a few are classified as treatments that will add value to the [...]Read more