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Is Practicing Nutrition Without being a Registered Dietitian a Crime?

submitted by: admin on 07/10/2014
  In states like North Carolina, it is against the law to provide nutritional advice even for free if you are not licensed by the American Dietetic Association. This means that, under the law, you could not advise a diabetic to avoid sugar unless you are a registered RD! While it is only a misdimeanor, it is punishable by fines and even imprisonment....

Is There a Supplement in Your Medicine Cabinet that Can Treat Ebola?

submitted by: admin on 10/19/2019
Ebola is still big in the news and it is being hyped up as a major danger to the entire world. The US has just sent 3000 troops to West Africa to help contain Ebola spread and the pharmaceutical industry is working feverishly to come up with a vaccine and drug to fight this dreaded disease. The entire world is frightened by the threat of global spread of Ebola. Of...

It's Time for Senator Max Baucus to Resign

submitted by: admin on 04/20/2024
"A Return Healing" Blog: Tue, 08/25/2009 - 17:14 — BBelitsosTell us it ain’t so, Max. Three disturbing phenomena seem to be converging around the person of Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chair of the most important Congressional committee working on health care reform. First: From his perch as head of the Senate Finance Committee, Baucus is increasingly...

Mammography

submitted by: admin on 04/20/2024
Mammograms are a poor screening test for premenopausal women. There are too many false positive and negative findings. Breast thermography is the answer. They have not been widely accepted.

Marijuana: Medical Usage

submitted by: admin on 04/20/2024
Legalization of marijuana at the state level does not supersede federal laws that prohibit its use. The relationship of the mafia with the government is discussed. There are many medical uses for this drug.

McDonald's in Pediatric Hospitals: What is the Message?

submitted by: admin on 10/10/2013
  Follow the dollars and you'll understand why this has happened. Today's medicine does not appreciate the value and importance of good nutrition. Mainstream medicine doesn't practice nutritional medicine, not even GI MD's.        

MDs Over-Prescribe Tests They Profit From

submitted by: admin on 10/11/2013
  Financial reimbursement and ownership of medical testing equipment leads to over-prescribing of these tests. These types of conflict of interest extend to ownership of MRI and CT facilities, surgicenters, cardiac imaging equipment, laboratory services and much more. A recent article in JAMA documented that MDs over prescribe two types of cardiac stress...

Medicare Prescription Plan Problems

submitted by: admin on 10/11/2013
The Medicare prescription plan provides some cost savings, but the government is prohibited from negotiating for lower prices and there is a hole in coverage that many cannot afford to pay for.        

Mind With Matter with Phillip Scott, PhD

submitted by: admin on 10/11/2013
Mind over matter is the cliché? However, Chief Black Horse makes the distinction between "over" and "with" in a very interesting way. There is no adversarial relationship between the mind and body, so where does the "over" come from. There is an energy of body, mind, emotion, and spirit, yet they are  still one. Deification...

More Polypill Baloney

submitted by: admin on 10/11/2013
  The polypill is the most ridiculous idea I've come across in years. It is designed to contain Norvasc, Cozaar, hydrochlorothiazide, and Zocor and is recommended for people over the age of 50 as prophylaxis for cardiovascular disease. It could be purchased over the counter and without seeing a physician! The study done to justify this position...

Myths and Truths About Hormones with Sherrill Sellman, ND

submitted by: admin on 10/12/2013
Myths and truths are confusing and lead to hormone chaos. Ovaries don't quit at menopause. The story of hormone replacement is exposed. The Women's Health Initiative is discussed and reveals the callous nature of Big Pharma.          

Off label Prescription Drug Usage

submitted by: admin on 04/20/2024
Off label use of a drug is when an approved drug is used for an unapproved use. This accounts for about 20% of all prescriptions. Drug companies are forbidden to advertize for off label uses. They are also disinclined to do research for these unapproved uses because they have little to gain from a study if the drug is already being used.

Oncologists Admit Income is Linked to Treatment

submitted by: admin on 06/25/2016
  A survey of 480 oncologists published in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology showed that they get paid more when they administer and sell chemotherapy and other drugs to their patients. This has been previously shown to account for up to 65% of their income in some instances. Yet only 27% of these oncologists acknowledged this...

Ownership Spurs Unnecessary MRI Tests

submitted by: admin on 09/30/2013
A study published in September of 2013 in the journal, Radiology, looked at the number of knee MRIs that were ordered by MDs with ownership in the MRI facility and those that did not, and found that about 33% more were ordered by those with ownership.  Medical practice has become a business, and income is the bottom line for for a business. We believe...

Paying MDs for Performance: Is it a Good Idea?

submitted by: admin on 04/20/2024
Rewarding MDs for following the policies of an insurance company that employs them is dangerous. One size fits all is not a good model to treat each unique person’s special health care issues.

PLoS Rejects Tobacco Funded Research

submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
The Public Library of Science no longer will publish information funded by the tobacco industry because they have only one purpose...to sell tobacco. They believe their "scientific" papers are marred by conflicts of interest.          

Preview, Coronary Artery Stents, Do You Need One?

submitted by: admin on 04/20/2024
The logic of identifying blockages in the coronary arteries and opening them with either a stent or surgical bypass makes a lot of sense. However, logic does not always turn out to provide the correct answer. We do nearly 1 million stent procedures to open blocked arteries every year in the US but unless we do them in the acute setting of a heart attack they...

Proton Pump Inhibitors and Their Side Effects

submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Proton pump inhibitors are massively overused. They are not approved for more than 6-8 weeks. Side effects include osteoporosis, senile dementia, poor digestion, addiction, poor absorption of calcium and iron.

Psychiatrists Embrace Pill Power

submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Big Pharma's control over psychiatry is a major step backwards. Even reimbursement for services is skewed to higher payment for drug vs cognitive treatment. It is time to treat patients, not primarily their symptoms.        

Psychiatrists Ties With Big Pharma

submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Psychiatrist have become psycho-pharmacologists. They are cutting back on accepting funds for their conferences from Big Pharma. There's a place for drugs but it is way overdone. Follow the dollars to see what's happening.        
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