Warning Issued on Bone Drugs by FDA
( I will get to some posts on acupuncture issues tomorrow, I promise! I just had to add this post. This is a topic I’ve...
Chemicals Everywhere, What Are They Doing To Us?
A comprehensive take down of the problems with Bisphenol by Nicholas Kristoff in the NYTimes. I will excerpt some of it here, but the whole...
NYTimes Book Review: How Doctors and Patients Do Harm
If you would like to go to whole interview with this doctor, click on the title. I excerpt only a small portion. How Doctors and...
Genentech Tries New Tack on Shelved Breast Cancer Drug Avastin
Genentech Tries New Tack on Shelved Breast Cancer Drug Avastin This is an article from the San Francisco Chronicle about “a new kind of study”...
Health Screenings, One More Take from the Field
Cancer Screening: Opinions from the Field I’m sure everyone is sick of this topic, but I thought I would share the take of two physicians...
Doctor Panels Recommending Fewer Tests for Patients
As a follow up to yesterday’s post about patients opting for less treatment, this article reports on the latest guidelines from 9 specialty boards, recommending...
Do Patients Want More Care or Less?
As readers of this blog know, I promote the point of view that sometimes in Medicine, Less is More. The title of my blog is...
Opioid Use for Abdominal Pain, A Bad Idea
In an article from Anesthesiology News “Opioid Use for Abdominal Pain Sees Recent Spike” they point out that from 1997 to 2008, opioid prescriptions for...