In “More Bad News About Benzos”, Medscape is warning doctors that Benzos are a bad choice for the elderly. In a May 2018 blog I wrote “Benzo Scripts On The Rise” and noted that as opioid use is curtailed, more people are taking addictive benzodiazepines. Two studies prompted this new benzo warning. One found that […]
Continue reading >A customer, who knows that I support homeopathy, recently asked if I was aware of Americans for Homeopathy Choice. They are a group of homeopathy consumers, mostly Mothers, who have gotten the FDA’s attention. My customer said “they are actively working to defend our right to choose homeopathy, if that is what we think is […]
Continue reading >This Medscape article “Breast Arterial Calcification Linked to CAD Risk in Women” reports on a study that recommends the use of mammograms to screen for coronary artery disease. The authors say that calcification in breast arteries is an incidental finding on mammography but can serve as a risk marker for heart disease before symptoms appear. […]
Continue reading >What do you think of when you read the Medscape headline ”High Rate of Bone Deterioration Among Women With T2DM?” Here are two hints. Magnesium deficiency is a sign of diabetes and osteoporosis is related to magnesium deficiency. So, it’s no wonder that 2/3 of women with type 2 diabetes mellitus have low bone mass […]
Continue reading >It seems a reasonable statement. Let’s not wait until you have full blown heart disease requiring a half-dozen drugs. Let’s keep your heart healthy and prevent heart disease. But in a Medscape article, “Do Cardiologists Care About CV Prevention“? Dr. Walton-Shirley says that apparently they do not! Her comments arose out of the European Society […]
Continue reading >I recently read Dr. Norman Doidge’s books – The Brain That Changes Itself and The Brain’s Way Of Healing. I wanted to help a friend research brain exercises to add to the Completement Formulas for his child who has been identified as a slow-learner. They are great books that provide lots of hope but I was pretty disappointed that there is […]
Continue reading >Well, you might as well just pack me in ice and thaw me out when medicine comes to its senses because this article “Can Exercise Worsen Dementia?” is truly scraping the barrel. At a time in our culture when we know that exercise is important on so many levels, now doubt is thrown into the […]
Continue reading >Here is the lead sentence in the Medscape article “99% of Doctors Need Diagnostic Help.” “Medical errors have become an accepted if unfortunate part of medical care, but physicians may greatly underestimate how much they contribute to the problem.” This statement implies that medical errors are part and parcel of medicine, and there is nothing […]
Continue reading >The title of a recent Medscape article “Statin Use Linked to Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis” caught my eagle eye. First of all, let me give you the definition of Idiopathic. It means – relating to or denoting any disease or condition that arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown. Lord Sufferin Cats! Spontaneously? Unknown Cause? […]
Continue reading >As far as I’m concerned, the final nail in the genetic-testing coffin was struck when GSK (GlaxcoSmithKline) announced “GSK Buys $300 Million Stake in 23andMe for Drug Research Data.” Yes, that’s right, GSK is buying into 23andMe so it can collect your data to develop new drugs and identify if you should be entered into a particular […]
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