Everybody knows how to prevent heart disease. Not really. Everybody just thinks they know. In truth, just about everybody is pretty much wrong.
Heart Disease Myths
Pharmacy Pricing Shenanigans
Prescription drugs are too expensive. You can’t be certain you will get the best price by insisting on generic drugs from big chain pharmacies. With a little bit of research you can save yourself a great deal of money.
Breast Cancer Deaths Reduced by Multiple Vitamin Supplements?
The largest study ever conducted of multiple vitamin use in postmenopausal women with breast cancer found a strong linkage between multiple vitamin use and better prognosis.
Drop the Drugs, Part 2
It is clear that altering our consciousness is both normal and potentially life-enhancing. It is also clear that this urge is easily perverted and can be extremely destructive.
Obamacare – Considering the Affordable Care Act
Do you understand what is going on with Obamacare and what your choices are? If you do, you are way ahead of most people.
Antibiotic Resistance – Drop the Drugs, Part 1
Antibiotic resistance is a crisis. It is a crisis we have created. We need to act now to cure our unhealthy use of antibiotics and other drugs.
Food Allergies in Infants
Twenty to thirty years ago we witnessed a massive rise in asthma rates among children. It came to be considered a public health emergency not only because asthma was becoming so very common, but more so due to the dramatic increases in hospitalization rates caused by asthma. Asthma, an allergic disease, was not just increasingly […]
Doggie Diagnosis, Man’s Best Friend Gets Even Better
We love our canine companions for sure, but they are probably able to do even more for us than we realize.
Breast Cancer and Medication
Many years ago a study came out linking increased use of antibiotics to an increased rate of breast cancer. That study considered cumulative use of all antibiotics, not one specific antibiotic, thus suggesting a range of possible causes. There was insufficient evidence to prove that the antibiotics caused the breast cancers or even certainly made women […]
Fishy Research
This seems to be the week of omega-3 oil publications. First there was a PATHETIC study whose authors claimed they had proved that O-3 supplements increase prostate cancer. http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/07/09/jnci.djt174.abstract. A boat load of scientists responded in the harshest terms, suggesting the author was trying to get attention (“the work of a junior professor”) and wondering […]