10/29/2004 - Is Big Brother behind YOU?
A few years ago, I wrote about the subversive practice of modern pediatricians asking probing questions of their child patients about the presence of firearms in the house where they live
10/26/2004 - Hypertension contention
Last August (Daily Dose, 8/8/2003), I wrote an article lambasting the American Medical Association for lowering its guidelines for healthy blood pressure for the umpteenth time.
By definition, activists are people of extreme viewpoints (ironically, this is what most activists say about everyone else). And I take pride in having ruffled the feathers of a great many of them in this very venue, and in my newsletter.
Ever since just after the Middle Ages, when cutting open the human body after death was forbidden, the standard method of educating doctors – and what passed for them in the old days – in basic anatomy has been the dissection of cadavers.
10/19/2004 - Twilight for the Twinkie
I wish I could say I’m going to shed a tear for the demise of the hostess Twinkie, but alas, I cannot muster one. Nor can I turn on the waterworks for Wonder Bread and those modern junk-food classics, the Ho-Ho and the Ding Dong.
10/18/2004 - Commerce or coercion?
I’ve been railing for a long time about how drug marketing causes an increase in the diagnosis of illness.
10/15/2004 - The silent treatment, part two
It’s no secret I’ve been on an anti-antidepressant kick for years now. If you’ve been with me for any amount of time at all, you know I think that “depression” is one the most over-diagnosed diseases in modern America.
Just last week, I told you about Merck & Co.’s “voluntary” yanking of the blockbuster arthritis drug Vioxx from pharmacy shelves
10/11/2004 - A killer painkiller?
Finally, some encouraging news on the drug front: Starting now, there will be ONE LESS OF THEM being peddled by prescription to sicken you or send you to the morgue.
10/08/2004 - The cancer crapshoot
It’s been a year or so since I railed against the worthless Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) screening for the detection of prostate cancer
10/05/2004 - Cancer-causing carbohydrates
Cancer study reveals: Avoid “carb-cinogens”
There’s a disturbing trend nowadays in cosmetic surgery (not that this kind of surgery itself isn’t a disturbing trend): Everyone wants to LOOK THE SAME.
