Archives for July 2008

While most people seem to think that a complete physical examination once a year is critical to maintaining good health, there's next to no proof that this is the case.

The salmonella outbreak taught us that, when it comes to our food, the FDA and CDC don't know anything – and they probably haven't learned anything either.

A 2006 study of Alzheimer's patients found that antipsychotic drugs provided no significant improvement over placebos in treating the delusions and aggression that accompanies that disease.

A new study found yet another downside to obesity and diabetes: infertility.

The anti-vaccination movement has finally turned its sights on Gardasil, the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine manufactured by the pharmaceutical giant Merck.

Infants at a Corpus Christi, TX, hospital were mistakenly overdosed with the blood thinner heparin – one of whom has died.

According to a new study done by researchers at McGill University in Canada, gastric bypass surgery can reduce the risk of cancer by as much as 85 percent. Which is great… as long as the surgery doesn't kill you.

I have recommended cod liver oil for 30 years. I always said that if it was good enough for my great grandmother Bell then it is good enough for you and me.

I consider eggs to be the perfect food. Thirty years ago, when I was telling my patients to eat all the eggs they wanted, the medical literati and the surgical Aztecs were telling them to limit their egg consumption to one egg a week.

The American Chemical Society (ACS), one of the pre-eminent scientific organizations in the world-and one with a degree of integrity far above any medical group I know of-has come out with a report to warm the heart of any barefoot doctor.