You cannot turn on the TV, flip through a magazine, listen to the radio or surf the internet without running across ads for the latest medications. We thrive on illness or symptomatology, I should say. These ads turn the simplest symptoms into major diseases. And because most of us fear our own [...]
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Although the word is not in yet for Avandia, does anyone else out there feel like “Here we go again”? Another drug possibly being pulled due to severe adverse reactions. Avandia has been used successfully for many people with diabetes, and although prior studies had shown protective effects for the heart, the latest shows opposite [...]
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It is unfortunate that since we have so much technology, we as a whole population expect more of medicine and expect everybody to expect more. What do I mean? Well, it seems that we all expect to live longer and if someone decides to allow nature to take its course, we ostracize them. We think they [...]
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I heard a story once about a woman who went to her doctor for knee pain. She was given an NSAID. Later, she developed high blood pressure and was given another pill. After that, she became depressed and was given yet another pill. Consequently, she became fatigued and was given another pill. Finally, she went [...]
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My husband went to the doctor for a physical mostly because he was tired of dealing with symptoms of dyspepsia. He was young, physically active, had no other known health problems, no family history of heart disease and did not have any bad habits. He had an EKG which showed some minor abnormality. The doctor [...]
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