Archives for July 2003

The people who run drug companies are crafty devils; I'll give them that. They can find more ways to sell drugs than the neighborhood narcotic pusher! Case in point: Paying doctors to market drugs to OTHER doctors.

However, along with all the pleasures of the high season's warmth and wonderful temperance come certain risks. If you listen to the shrill mainstream, those risks are skin cancer, sunstroke, heat exhaustion and the like …

I know, I know – this isn't exactly breaking news. It's still scary, though. The latest data show that more than one fourth of the men in this country and more than one third of all American women are clinically obese.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Prostate cancer screening is USELESS. Strong words, I know – but time and again science has proven me right.

…From the sunscreen companies and the doctors, maybe there is some link between the screens and the increase in skin cancer. Let me reword that: are the skin screens causing skin cancer?

According to an article I read recently in the Washington Post, SARS can be "spread in part by traveling through bathroom drainpipes."

But preparing doesn't mean submitting yourself to a syringe full of the vaccine the government says is the answer. As I explained in the May issue of Real Health, the current vaccine is derived from the animal form of the disease – cowpox.

1. Over the years, I’ve had many patients and even some colleagues ask me if I know of a natural treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF). Unfortunately, I always had to tell them that I didn’t have a natural treatment for it–or an unnatural one, for that matter.

2. Has the perfect world arrived? Well, not exactly. But technologically it may be close–in the form of recycled garbage.

3. Not that I had to look very hard, but I’ve found another reason to hate cell phones. There’s a report floating around in cyberspace claiming that you can actually blow yourself up if you use a cell phone while pumping gas into your car.

4. I was watching British news a few months ago and in between war scenes, they were showing other snippets of interest, such as “How to Avoid Cancer.” The newscaster was interviewing a pasty little vegetarian professor from some prestigious university, and she asked him what people could do to avoid cancer. He replied…

“You have written about the use of homeopathy in the treatment of smallpox. Would it be equally effective in the treatment of influenza, specifically SARS that, I assume, is another variety of influenza. This would appear to me to be a more immediate threat.”

“I read in your Daily Dose about the dangers of the Jacuzzi. Is there no way to avoid giving it up? It is an important part of my daily routine and I would miss it greatly.”