The Virginia Health Enquirer Enquiring minds want to know – how to improve Virginia’s health   Ignoring Sound Science Was a Tragic Mistake During the Covid Pandemic             Mistakes in wartime can result in hundreds, even thousands of excess deaths. Strategic mistakes made during deadly viral pandemics can result in hundreds of thousands of excess deaths, just as they did with Covid-19. After SARS-1 in 2002, scientists went to work to discover ways to protect people against future corona viruses. When SARS-2/Covid-19 arrived seventeen years later, that research was ignored. In January 2020, Chinese scientist reported that Ebselen, a selenium-based drug, was the most effective out of 10,000 chemicals tested against the SARS-2 virus. That discovery also was ignored. In March 2020 researcher Howard Armistead sent three emails to Tony Fauci’s deputy at the National Institutes of Health, N...

The following is the introduction for a forthcoming comprehensive medical essay on uterine fibroids (UFs) and their treatment. It is based on a review of 130 medical journal articles.   Solving the Global Problem of Uterine Fibroids   Background, Rationale, and Introduction             Except for diseases caused by a nutritional deficiency, no single discovery or therapeutic breakthrough can completely cure a disease. This essay provides the scientific basis to support the use of a safe, affordable, effective nutritional combination therapy to help prevent, retard, and reduce the incidence and symptoms of uterine fibroids – UFs - medically known as uterine leiomyomas, or simply, myomas. This proposed combination therapy consists of three medicines that previously have been scientifically shown to be effective in shrinking fibroids or inhibiting their development. Those are vitamin D 3, curcumin (turmeric), and sel...

  The Virginia Health Enquirer Enquiring minds want to know – how to improve Virginia's health. Retrieving the gems of effective therapies that fell through the cracks in the rush for excess profits. The Voice of the Voiceless in the Dismal Swamp of Medical Research. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote of the day: “No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe when the legislature is in session.” - Gideon Tucker, 1866 The First Clinical Trial in History Discovered the Value of Vitamin C.             Dr James Lind, ship’s surgeon aboard the HMS Salisbury, conducted the first modern clinical trial on May 20, 1747. Dividing twelve sailors who suffered from scurvy into six groups, he gave each group a different supplemental treatment in addition to their regular diet. The group that received two oranges and a lemon daily quickly rec...

The Commonhealth of Virginia Times     Turning Health Into Wealth For All Virginians Since 2026 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   How to Improve the Common Health of Virginia             If health is wealth, the Commonwealth of Virginia should strive to improve its common health. The quickest most affordable way to accomplish that would be to establish the Virginia Institute for Clinical Health Research – VICHR - at Virginia Commonwealth University. VICHR will clinically test additional uses for existing medications.                 Virginia researchers can discover safe, effective and affordable complementary therapies to come closer to curing numerous diseases and finding ways to reduce the symptoms of some of those by 20% to 40%, or more. States shou...

  The Ca-Choo - Flu Begone News     Capitol Hill City Edition – Winter 2026 Real Flu News for Real Fluish People    –    All the News That’s Fit to Sneeze At Free – But Worth Every Penny – Published by Howard Steel Armistead, IAS,   CloserToaCure.com Circulation – One Ream __________________________________________________________________________________________________ It’s Never Too Late to Get Your Flu Shot             According to the New York Times and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of   Minnesota, the 2026 winter flu season is the worst in 25 years. As a state reporting among the top fifteen influenza infection rates, Virginia is in the bullseye of this annually recurring pandemic.             The current strain of the H3N2 influenza-A in circulation is the s...

1.       Introduction: The Challenge of H5N1 Avian Influenza               H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) may soon gain the ability to transmit human-to-human. It has not achieved that yet but appears to inch closer each month. It could happen soon – or not so soon. H5N1 already has infected and killed tens of thousands of dairy cattle in 15 states (Gutierrez). Over 108 million chickens have died or had to be culled nationwide (Abbott) since the virus arrived in the U.S. from Northern Europe in 2021. (Peacock) Most wild bird species that crisscross American skies carry H5N1 and have infected both domestic fowl and 200 mammal species in America since it first appeared. It has killed half the American bald eagles in some states. (M. Johnson)            Cows (Kristensen), pigs (Saey 4/24), minks (Tufekci ‘23), ferrets (Belser) and cats (Chothe) all carr...