July 21, 2010
A pundit was overheard to say it takes at least 100 deaths for the FDA to act regarding pulling a prescription drug from the marketplace. The playing field is far from level for risky medications versus the risks of supplements including herbs.
September 8, 2010
The power of the produce-stand now resplendent with the rich colors and inviting smells of ripe fruit and summer’s vegetable bounty is lost to all-too-many Americans. Walk the aisles of a public or farmer’s market at summer’s end and marvel over the blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, the grapes and currants, fragrant peaches, and the amazing heirloom tomatoes, just to name but a few of nature’s treats.
August 28, 2010
The NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination) survey analysis by the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston reviewed hearing tests on U.S. adolescents from 1988-1994 and 2005-2006. Their conclusion published in a recent issue of JAMA/Journal of the American Medical Association was that hearing loss among teens aged 12-19 has increased a significant thirty (30) percent.
August 24, 2010
The news has subtly crept into the public consciousness. Muscle/ligament/ tendon tears are not always candidates for surgical repair. That is a huge paradigm shift for practitioner and patient alike who have been culturally conditioned to think in terms of structure rather than function.
August 19, 2010
The U.S. health care industry has remained an anathema to the American economy whose strengths have historically been built on a free market system.
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