“Apple Watch ECG App Rolls Out: The Healthcare Experiment Begins” gives us a glimpse of the brave new world or overdiagnosis for profit as Apple becomes your new doctor. Apparently Apple has been working with the FDA to approve a new EKG app for the Apple Watch Series 4. That’s right you can view your […]
Continue reading >It’s taken decades for drug companies to publically acknowledge that insulin and sulfonylurea drugs, both used to treat type 2 diabetes, increase the risk for heart disease. They make that announcement in a recent JAMA study reported on Medscape. Why now, you ask? Because they have a new line of glucose-lowering drugs that they are unveiling. […]
Continue reading >Our culture is suffering from too much information and at the same time we are losing our words to resist. What an amazing schizophrenic, even quadrophrenic existence we are now living. The latest onslaught of TMI in the medical world is an Apple Watch app just released before the 2018 Holidays that reads your heart […]
Continue reading >My blog topic is the title of an American Journal of Cardiology paper that’s an outright educational promotion for a new line of cholesterol drugs. I guess the publicity against statin drugs has hit a high point and drug companies are scrambling to keep the cholesterol myth going with non-statin PCSK9 Inhibitors that supposedly treat LDL cholesterol. The […]
Continue reading >Floxing is the term used by people who suffer serious side effects from fluoroquinolone antibiotics. These drugs are widely used and include ciprofloxacin (Cipro), gemifloxacin (Factive), levofloxacin (Levaquin), moxifloxacin (Avelox), norfloxacin (Noroxin), and ofloxacin (Floxin). What do all these drugs have in common? They are all fluoridated molecules, which means they contain fluorine. This very toxic element […]
Continue reading >After my last Blog “The Three Traditions of Medicine” Some readers wanted more information about “Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.” Here’s the standard definition: “systematically developed statements to assist practitioner decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. Guidelines can be used to reduce inappropriate variations in practice and to promote the delivery of high quality, evidence-based health care.” I translate […]
Continue reading >Is ADHD Really Increasing? This article on Medscape came out at the same time WebMD reported the incidence of autism as 1 in 40 children. In the same news cycle there was a study by the NIH reporting the negative impact of Heavy Screen Time on Young Brains. The latest ADHD study, using 2015-2016 data, measured the prevalence […]
Continue reading >How does that make any sense? Botulinum Toxin for AF After Cardiac Surgery. Surgery puts you at risk for arrhythmia; to prevent them, doctors give beta blockers preventively. However, that ended badly for many patients. I wrote about it in a blog called “Killer Beta Blockers”. Surgery also puts you at risk for magnesium deficiency, especially […]
Continue reading >According to my friend, Susun Weed (Yes she’s a herbalist!) there are three medical traditions: Scientific, Heroic, and Wise Woman. Let’s look at Scientific Medicine. I write in Death by Modern Medicine that since the Flexner Report in 1908 “the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations were able to establish a ‘scientific’ medical monopoly in North America. You can […]
Continue reading >My blog “Why Doctors Fear Magnesium” revealed the narrow mindedness of doctors and triggered many irate stories from readers. Here’s one: “My sister has osteoarthritis, MS, fibromyalgia, and several other things and she’s gone to a rheumatologist for a while. At the last visit, the doc mentioned that my sister’s “numbers” were much better and […]
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