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Do MDs Overuse Medicare Services?
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
Mixing medicine and business lead to conflicts of interest. There are many cases where hospitals, clinics, and MDs overcharge Medicare and situations where they are restricted from delivering good care.
Do Painkillers Interfere with Antidepressants?
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Antidepressants, especially those in the SSRI category such as Zoloft, Prozac, Paxil, may not work in people also taking painkillers such as ibuprofen and aspirin. This combination leads to lowered serum levels of the antidepressant and less antidepressant effects. This is just one more example of how many potential complications there are to using SSRI antidepressants....
Do You Need a Brain Scan if You Have Headaches
submitted by: admin on 04/03/2014
According to an article out of the Univerity of Michigan Medical Center that was published in March of 2014 in the journal, Internal Medicine, we spend about a billion dollars a year for unnecessary brain scans (MRIs and CT scans) on people who have headaches. Their research showed that the incidence of brain tumors, brain aneurysms, and AV malformations...
Do You Prefer a Male or Female Doctor?
submitted by: admin on 12/10/2013
Researchers at the University of Montreal evaluated 870 male and female doctors with regard to their compliance in managing diabetic patients with practice guidelines set by the Canadian Diabetes Association. They found that female MDs followed guidelines that included regular eye and physical exams, and the use of three medications that included a statin drug...
Doctors and Nurses Use CAM More than the Public
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
Three of every four US healthcare workers use CAM for prevention. MDs and RNs used CAM services more than their assistants. Thirty eight percent of the US uses CAM services such as supplements, meditation, chiropractic, Pilates, Ayurveda, and Chinese medicine. The reasons healthcare workers used CAM was for back, neck, and joint pain.
Yet only 1.5% of total...
Doctors Do Not Always Take Their Own Advice
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
When doctors step into their patient's shoes their treatment decisions are often different. Treatment protocols are often followed because they are the standard of care and not following them is plagued with potential law suits and disciplinary action from their medical boards. Medical practice is very complex and making decisions out of the mainstream...
Dr Len Saputo - Medical Mafia - Vaccine Hoax - Healing Mind, Body, Soul - Health Medicine
submitted by: admin on 05/21/2016
Excellent interview with Dr Len Saputo. Dr Saputo is a pioneer in his industry using a mind, body, and spirit approach. After becoming board certified in internal medicine and owning his own private practice for over 30 years,Dr. Saputo began to realize that there was better to treat the patient as a whole person than treating just the symptons with another pill....
Dr. Saputo Radio, Cutting Through the Confusion About Ebola
submitted by: admin on 10/18/2014
Dr. Len and nurse Vicki break down the real facts about Ebola in this 20 minute radio show!
Why has Ebola attracted international attention that is freaking out millions of people around the world? Is there an actual pandemic? True enough that there have been more deaths this year than combined since 1976, and that has people worried. However,...
Dr. Saputo's Recommended Wellness Coaches
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
The health care practitioner you choose is one of the most important decisions you'll make in your life. The people Dr. Saputo recommends as Health and Wellness Coaches have all been personally screened by Dr. Saputo himself so you can rest assured that they are knowledgeable, caring healers, with the highest integrity.
These...
Drug Company Kickbacks to Doctors and Pharmacists
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
The US government is filing a law suit against the drug company, Novartis, for giving $65 million kickbacks to physicians and pharmacists to prescribe Lotrel, Valturna, Starlix, and Myfortis over the past decade. These kickbacks were in the form of dinners at high end restaurants, cash, rebates, and discounts.
One extreme example is from...
Drug Dosing Confuses the Elderly
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
Many older patients, who take an average of seven medications a day, get confused by the vague instructions on the prescription bottles and they don’t take their medicines properly. Even well educated people may have some low “health literacy skills.” Patients often think they aren’t supposed to take their medications at the...
Drug Reps Do Not Inform MDs About Dangerous Drug Side Effects
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
An article published in the April issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine documented that drug reps fail to inform MDs about dangerous side effects in 59% of cases. Yet these MDs still reported that they we still likely to prescribe these drugs. This is against the law as well as immoral, but there is no resource to monitor what happens in...
Drug Saftey in the Elderly
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
Our elderly population is overmedicated and following directions for their use is a big issue. Poor detoxification with aging complicates this further. Hospitalized patients are even more challenged by an avalanche of drugs and their interactions.
Ecologically Sustainable Medicine
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2024
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Energy Medicine is Here with Bernie Williams, PhD
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
There are now PhD programs in energy medicine; one is at the Academy for Intuition Medicine in Sausalito, CA. Indigenous healing systems tend to be anchored in energy healing and invoke the energy of the village to create healing. Dr. Williams gives an overview of energy medicine and examples of what it means. Acupuncture is an excellent example.
Energy Medicine with Bernd Friedlander, DC
submitted by: admin on 09/20/2013
Touch, magnetic fields, sunlight, colors, and sound all have powerful effects on our biochemistry and physiology. We are all made of energy, and increasing energy in the body promotes healing. The mind has an intuitive ability to affect our physiology as well. Dr. Friedlander gives examples of what his approach can do.
Energy Medicine with Marc Weill
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Marc takes a look at energy medicine from the perspective of applied kinesiology and describes how he uses it and what it treats.
Applied kinesiology, iridology, electrodermal screening are some of the modalities used in energy medicine in Europe that are starting to make their way into the progressive health care practitioners practices in the US. Managing...
Epigenetics of Breast Cancer
submitted by: admin on 06/25/2016
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reviewed data about possible environmental risks for developing breast cancer. They felt that pesticides, beauty products, heousehold chemicals, and plastics might or might not be risk factors for breasts cancer. They did agree that medical x-rays were a clear risk for developing breast cancer. They recommended that...
Ethical Issues in Medical Research
submitted by: admin on 09/21/2013
Yale School of Medicine researchers found a clinical trial with neurontin was a seeding trial used by Big Pharma to promote the drug and increase prescriptions. Seeding trials are not illegal but are unethical because they offer no research. They took advantage of 2700 patients and 772 investigators to complete the publication. These people gained nothing for...
Exercise Boosts Immunity Against Cancer
submitted by: admin on 06/25/2016
Exercising after completing chemotherapy boosts immunity by replacing senescent NK cells with vibrant, healthy NK cells that can fight against the progression of cancer according to an October 2012 article presented at the Integrative Biology of Exercise in October of 2012. This study out of the University of Nebraska studied people who participated...
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