Archives for September 2011

If you think kids are just plain rotten now, just wait a few years. The next generation is going to be the worst group yet. It’s not because of poor parenting (although that will certainly play its part). It’s because of toxic chemicals.

A new study opens the door for pumping kids full of blood pressure meds — even if they’re perfectly healthy and even if they don’t actually have high blood pressure by any standard definition.

It’s enough to drive you nuts: You know your body better than anyone, and you definitely know when there’s something wrong — but your doctor doesn’t seem to give a hoot.

Like I said, you don’t have to tolerate pain and suffering as part of getting older — but millions of seniors do every day. And no condition brings more pain to more seniors than arthritis.

I wouldn’t be caught dead reading Jane Fonda’s new book — but it sounds like she’s ripped a page or two right out of mine. Hanoi Jane has been making headlines for admitting that the wild septuagenarian sex she’s been bragging about was actually fueled by testosterone supplements.

Over-the-counter painkillers end lives — a tragic reality that the FDA outrageously refuses to recognize.

There’s a new call for the feds to put more warnings onto common heartburn drugs. Big whooptie-do. Any warning slapped onto these meds now is way too little and far too late. Millions are already hooked on proton pump inhibitors…

Osteoporosis meds have been linked to kidney failure, crippling pain, death, and even — ironically — shattered bones. So what’s an FDA “expert panel” doing to protect the 5 million women who take bisphosphonate meds such as Fosamax, Actonel, Reclast, and Boniva every year?

Treat patients like human beings, and they’ll behave like human beings — no matter how sick they are. … But this is what passes for cutting-edge Alzheimer’s care these days.

Did you know that even a little red meat causes diabetes? Or that if you swap that meat for some nuts and whole grains, you can slash your disease risk? Yeah that was news to me, too.