Asthma is a chronic condition that limits your ability to breathe. It affects the tubes that [...]
Alzheimer's Disease Many in the preparedness community are mature enough (and prepared enough) [...]
On January 7th, 2020, I wrote an article about pneumonia that described a mysterious new [...]
Hint: This isn't enough The CDC has recommended social distancing that keeps six feet between [...]
Health authorities in China are reporting 60-70 cases of a previously unknown viral pneumonia [...]
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fish oil if a disaster knocks you off the grid for long enough, the medicines eventually run out[...]
Nail bed laceration A fractured femur or a gunshot wound to the chest are major injuries that [...]
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#367 SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Amy Alton ARNP In this episode of the Survival Medicine [...]
wound debridement Medical professionals like doctors, nurses, and paramedics and the high-tech [...]
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#363 SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Hepatitis A outbreaks Outbreaks of hepatitis A are [...]
#355 THE SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST Southern California has been hit with a 7.1 [...]
WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CBD OIL CBD Oil is being studied by researchers. Public support for [...]
DIABETES OFF THE GRID Insulin will run out in times of trouble I was asked recently to come on[...]
VIDEO: KISSING BUGS AND CHAGAS DISEASE Triatoma "Kissing" bugs In this video companion to a [...]
SURVIVAL MEDICINE HOUR PODCAST We don’t often get to report good news these days, but [...]
ASTHMA IN SURVIVAL, PART 3: NATURAL REMEDIES Last video, we talked about asthma, which is a [...]
VIDEO: ASTHMA, PART 1 In Part 1 of this video series on asthma, Joe Alton MD discusses the [...]
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KIDNEY STONES: Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention Kidney Stone The ability to urinate [...]
TYPHUS IN L.A. In our upcoming book “Alton’s Antibiotics and Infectious Disease: A Guide [...]
The medic for a survival group needs to be able to stop a wound from bleeding and splint an ankle [...]
ALL ABOUT TICK BITES Backcountry hikes are a great way to commune with nature, but not by [...]
STROKES ON AND OFF THE GRID Often, medics in remote areas are confronted with a major [...]
MALARIA World's most dangerous creature? The world is full of dangerous critters, and we're [...]
natural remedies If you're putting together a solid first aid kit, you have to decide if that kit[...]
BASICS OF HEPATITIS liver There are various infectious diseases that may confront the [...]
Video: Germs That Cause Illness In this video, Joe Alton, MD, aka Dr. Bones, goes back to the [...]
gallstones The gall bladder is a hollow sac-like organ that is attached to the liver; it stores a[...]
Last time, we talked about what antioxidants are and how they work to [...]
Last year's vaccine was 20% effective, is next year's any different? What do you know [...]
Leprosy is considered a disease of the past, but the bacterial infection continue to [...]
In 2012, I reported on the appearance of a strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis in [...]
The human kidney has a tendency, in some people, to develop an accumulation of crystals. These [...]
One of the most-frequently asked questions I get regarding medical preparedness is about [...]
Juvenile Tick (larval stage) In this episode of the Doom and Bloom(tm) Survival Medicine Hour, [...]
Myocardial Infarction Unlike most doctors, I don't spend a great deal of time [...]
In the first 4 parts of our series on Diabetes Mellitis, we discussed type 1 diabetes [...]
Injecting Insulin (Dr. Bones says: Originally published in somewhat different form in 2011, [...]
In the first 3 parts of this series, we discussed the different types of diabetes and strategies[...]
In part 1 of this series of articles, we gave an overview of diabetes mellitis , its types, and [...]
Wildfires, Drought, and Herbal Medicine In this episode of the Survival Medicine Hour [...]
In Part 1, we discussed the long-standing history of diabetes (also called “diabetes [...]
PANCREAS AND INSULIN-PRODUCING CELLS One of the most common questions we receive during our[...]
Email I recently received the following message from a nice lady who [...]
Varicose veins are dilated blood vessels, usually in the legs, which have lost tone in the [...]
Seizures occur when the brain’s electrical system misfires. Instead of sending out [...]
Hey Preppers, I haven't spent a great deal of time discussing chest pain due to coronary [...]
Hey Preppers, One of the most common chronic medical conditions that we will see, in good [...]
Making Insulin One of the questions I am asked most often is how to deal with Type 1 [...]
Survival Medicine and Medical Conditions Hey Preppers! I often get questions from people that [...]