Sapere aude! Dare to use your own intelligence! This is the battle cry of Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant in 1784 Medical doctors are highly intelligent people with immense abilities to acquire knowledge. Through studies at university, regular reading of medical research and learning from their colleagues, doctors become highly knowledgable. Keeping up to date with new research is a somewhat obsessive-compulsive behaviour among many of them. Although new knowledge does not come with a "best … [Read more...]
Are non-communicable diseases not caused by microorganisms?
According to Wikipedia, a non-communicable disease, or NCD, is a medical condition or disease that can be defined as non-infectious and non-transmissible among people. The basic causes of NCD are unknown and for that reason, we cannot say for sure that NCD are not caused by infections. Multiple epidemiological studies have, for example, established positive associations between the risk of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality and markers of infection(1). However, what we definitely … [Read more...]