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submitted by: admin on 09/22/2013
In Chapter 1 of A Return to Healing, we tell the true story of how Vicki Saputo, RN (the wife of the author, Len Saputo, MD) faced and then overcame a major life-threatening condition. She had long suffered from delayed recurring allergic reactions...
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
"A Return to Healing" InterviewsInterviews and discussion with authors Len Saputo, MD, and Byron Belitsos
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Health, Politics, and You: A Blog by the authors of A Return to Healing
submitted by: admin on 09/24/2013
Health insurance companies outright cheat many people who develop chronic disease that will cost a lot of money to treat them. Historically, with newly found breast cancer are simply denied further insurance once their diagnosis is made. This is know as recission, and it is illegal, but they do it anyway and usually get away with it because these individuals...
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
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"A Return to Healing" InterviewsInterviews and discussion with authors Len Saputo, MD, and Byron Belitsos
"A Return to Healing" Discussions — Chapter 1Len Saputo, MD with Vicki Saputo, RN:
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submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Insurance companies depend on our being sick to make a profit. Physicians released the purse strings of medicine to the insurance industry. Now they control the practice of medicine. MDs need to take back this financial authority..
submitted by: admin on 10/09/2013
Medical research is purported to be based on randomized controlled trials. However, there is another approach that is called "outcome" research.
submitted by: admin on 11/22/2014
The November 2014 issue of the Journal of :Public Policy and Marketing asked the question, "Do companies that 'do good' sell unhealthy food?" Let's make it easy. Should you believe that because Coke and Pepsi support the Olympics and many other worthy events in our culture mean that soft drinks are good for the human body?
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submitted by: admin on 10/11/2013
It is a legal doctrine that holds corporate officers liable for company wrongdoing. However, in the medical arena, enforcement is minimal and companies get away with murder! The Vioxx story is a classic example where deliberate action knowingly led to 50,000 deaths and not one person was criminally prosecuted. In fact, the company denied any wrongdoing at all...
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
A Return To Healing, Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
Direct to consumer ads are misleading and often outright lies. The only countries in the world allowing these ads are the US and New Zealand. The FDA is not doing a reasonable job in regulating what DTC ads can say. The goal of Big Pharma is to make money for their stockholders. Ads for "the purple pill" are exposed as outright deceptive. We need new...
submitted by: admin on 10/14/2013
We cannot sustain a sick care health system and must shift to a true health care system where prevention is the cornerstone of medical practice. In my book, A Return to Healing, I present a 5 point plan that could help encourage a health care paradigm. This program includes: Funding exercise programs both nationally and locally and in every academic...
submitted by: admin on 10/16/2013
In the US the cost for statins for people under age 65 and who have insurance is about 400% higher than in the UK according to an article in the journal Pharmacotherapy. There are also about 1/3 more prescriptions sold in the US. The power of Big Pharma is mind-boggling. There is a desperate need to rein their power and create a system based on service rather...
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
The CDC and FDA has recommended the swine flu vaccine with almost non-existing science regarding its effectiveness and its safety. The basis for making the decision to recommend the vaccine has been by proclamation! What little data that does exist in the medical literature about the effectiveness of influenza vaccines shows it doesn't work in either infants...
submitted by: admin on 11/23/2024
Len Saputo, M.D. discusses some critical issues regarding healthcare reform as well as very achievable solutions.