Archives for August 2004

Doctors are getting sick and tired of being taken to the cleaners for malpractice insurance so that vulture-like litigators and their willing co-conspirators in the hallowed halls of government can get rich.

A recent winner of the American Academy of Dermatology's prestigious, once-yearly Master Award) has publicly questioned the sky-is-falling conventional wisdom about the sunlight/melanoma link.

Long have I railed against the USDA's obesity-inducing Food Pyramid. Long have I known and loud have I roared that it was designed under "guidance" from the wheat and grain industries.

Imagine waking up after amputation surgery, groggy and disoriented, only to discover that the foot you're supposed to have is gone, and the one that's supposed to be gone is still attached…

Because of a stalemate between our wonderfully efficient and compassionate Medicaid system and a Utah hospital, a young woman almost lost her head – literally.

It seems that the latest session of Governor Shwarzenegger's California legislature is expected to approve a bill allowing cosmetic facial surgery to be performed BY DENTISTS.

This time, they've successfully singled out and forced Dr. Michael Holick, a well-known authority on skin, UV light, and disease, to resign his post at the dermatology department of the prestigious Boston University medical school.

A year and a half ago, I wrote to you about a popular schoolyard sport that's in danger of being banned because of parents' (and educators) fears that their kids might feel persecuted by losing at it – or worse yet, by NOT being picked for the team.

Once again, there's scientific evidence that the fat-phobic mainstream's got it all backward when it comes to your heart health.

It turns out that all the heart surgeries we’re so fond of in this country-bypass, angioplasty, and stents-may just be a dramatic demonstration of the placebo effect. New research shows that these techniques aren’t actually doing anything to stop heart attacks. You see, we’re so concerned with “opening” or re-routing all those blocked arteries that no one noticed that the blockages aren’t actually responsible for heart attacks.