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Why Physicians Abuse Prescription Drugs
submitted by: admin on 10/10/2013
Researchers from the University of Florida Medical Center anonymously interviewed 55 MDs in a drug addiction recovery program to find out the reasons why abused pharmaceutical drugs. They published their results in the 2013 issue of the Journal of Addiction Medicine. They learned that they used these drugs to manage pain, for psychiatric...
Why Physicians Avoid Obese Patients
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
MDs have insufficient knowledge about obesity and it's frustrating to not have the tools to deal with it. Factors such as stress, hormone imbalances, and poor diet are passed along to the psychiatrists.Measuring the basal metabolic rate is a forgotten test. Diets loaded with carbs lead to the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Prenatal factors have been...
Why Poorer Children Tend to be Less Intelligent
submitted by: admin on 11/12/2013
Research out of Washington University School of Medicine that was published in the journal Pediatrics in October of 2013 looked at the effect of poverty on the brain development of 145 kids using MRIs. They did a study measuring the stress level of a mother and her child and then correlated this with MRI changes that revealed less white and gray matter in...
Why Practice Mindful Meditation
submitted by: admin on 07/13/2014
We are all looking for ways to de-stress and relax, and there are many ways to do this. Mindfullness Meditation promotes relaxation by encouraging being present with our challenges and accept them, rather than try to escape them. The Buddha taught that we should practice being with our problems and that when we do this we show up for life. The idea is to become...
Why Premonitions are Important with Larry Dossey, MD
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Premonitions are related to survival. They often occur in our dreams and emerge into our waking awareness and frequently relate to the maternal child bond. Science and intuition are interrelated but generally discarded because we don't understand what is happening. We need to listen to our patients.
Why Society is Depressed with Meg Jordan, PhD, RN
submitted by: admin on 10/17/2013
America is depressed. It is linked to health, insurance, employment. Positive emotions can make life longer and healthier. We're not engaged in life as we were years ago. We don't have the face to face connections any longer. Heart break, isolation, and lonliness and the fear of economic disaster; this is a decade of fear. People in poor countries...
Why US Health Care Doesn't Work
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
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Why Warning Labels Can be Dangerous to Your Health
submitted by: admin on 02/09/2014
A fascinating study from Tel Aviv University and published in the January 2014 issue of Psychological Science showed that some warning labels actually promote sales! It seems to depend on when a manufacturer attempts to make a sale. When potential buyers are given full disclosure about the dangers of drugs, cigarettes or even artificial sweeteners,...
Why we cannot trust the FDA
submitted by: admin on 01/09/2014
A special editorial written by Donald Wright from Harvard University and published in the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics pointed out that 90% of all new drugs approved by the FDA over the past 30 years are little or no more effective than drugs that are already on the market! They also commented that the safety of new FDA approved drugs is low....
Why We Should Drug Test Doctors and Nurses
submitted by: admin on 11/19/2014
In November of 2014 voters in California voted against making it mandatory for doctors to undergo drug testing. None of us want to believe that our MD might be drinking too much or taking drugs, but then none of us would want a doctor who was drinking or taking drugs! There is a lot of data showing that doctors and nurses are especially vulnerable to these problems....
Why You and Your Family are Likely Malnourished
submitted by: admin on 11/06/2014
There have been several USDA studies published as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys over the pasts 50 years and all of them demonstrate widespread nutritional deficiencies in the US. Our food is calorie dense, but nutritionally deficient in a wide range of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that include vitamins A, C, and D and minerals such...
Why You Need a Wellness Coach
submitted by: admin on 09/09/2014
A scientific study published in the August 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings reported that wellness coaching are starting to become popular as people become more concerned with how to improve the overall quality of their life. The medical paradigm in the US is shifting from disease care to health care, and it is about time. Programs on wellness coaching...
Why You Should Not Get a Screening Mammogram at Any Age
submitted by: admin on 02/24/2014
The conclusion of a 25 year prospective study published in the British Medical Journal in February of 2014 was that screening mammograms not only do not save lives but also lead to a 22% over-diagnosis that leads to unnecessary testing and treatment in women between the ages of 50 and 69.
After all these years of policy set by governments, research...
Women's Health and Breast Thermography
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Working Long Hours Can Lead to a Heart Attack
submitted by: admin on 02/19/2015
A longterm study showed that working more than 11 hours a day increased the risk for heart disease by 67%. It was not determined if it was the long hours themselves or the unhealthy habits associated such as diet, exercise, sleep and stress that was the underlying mechanism. What we should be striving for is balance in life in our work, exercise, diet, stress,...
Working Through Joy with Carol Hansen Grey
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Identifying what brings joy helps bring empowerment. Intention for a good purpose often brings the outcome desired. It leads to self-empowerment, self-healing, and confidence in ourself.
Working Together to Deal with Covid 19
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Working Together to Deal with Covid 19
submitted by: admin on 09/29/2020
Dr. Len is in the hospital broadcasting this show with Francesco. He
feels care he is getting has been superb and the doctors, nurses, and
staff have gone out of their way to listen and care. To make a long
story short, Dr. Len has severe hypertension from an endocrine imbalance
that has been very difficult to control. It has ranged from 220/110 to
60/40...
Wyeth's Ghost Writers for HRT Studies
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Ghost writing is common in medical research. Big pharma employs writers who excel at making the conclusions it needs to sell a drug. Researchers are requested to put their name on editorial reviews written by ghost writers. This lengthens resumes but also sells drugs. The ethics of this are reviewed and the emphasis on greed, corruption, conflicts of interest...
X-Rays, Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation
submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
The relationship between high dose radiation is well known, but much is known about diagnostic medical radiation in causing cancer. We now know that medical radiation plays a role in causing cancer, especially in children. We tend to over-depend on technology to solve clinical questions because it is easy and useful, and to protect liability of medical...
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