I find it amusing when I am accused of practicing bad medicine because I don’t follow evidence-based medicine. When I am confronted with this argument, I always ask, “What evidenced-based medicine are you talking about? Is it the ghost-written articles? Or is it the industry-sponsored articles that provide the...
I have been practicing medicine for 20 years. In my early years, I practiced conventional medicine as I was taught in my training. During those years, I used drug therapies to treat a variety of illnesses. However, I began to question the wisdom of solely relying on drug therapies...
Folks, this is a big deal. This bill is being driven by Big Pharma. If it passes, there is no doubt that FDA will start to make bioidentical, natural hormones unavailable. This bill needs go away. DrB Your bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is under...
Proton pump inhibiters (PPI’s) are widely prescribed antacid medications. Examples of PPI’s include: Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid, Aciphex, and Protonix. In fact, in 2009, over 21 million U.S. adults were prescribed a PPI and sales of PPI’s grew to over $13 billion globally. PPI’s work by poisoning the stomach’s proton pump. ...
It has always been amazing to me how doctors can prescribe a myriad of psychoactive drugs that have neither been properly studied nor proved to be effective. Antidepressant medications such as SSRI’s have never been shown to be very effective at treating patients from depression– in fact, they are...
An article in the New York Times today (2.15.13) reported, “Traces of a common psychiatric medication that winds up in rivers and streams may affect fish behavior and feeding patterns.” The Swedish researchers exposed perch to different concentrations of an anti-anxiety medication—Oxazepam. Oxazepam is a benzodiazepine drug similar to...
As reported in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (1.10.13) a study by the Institute of Medicine found that our health care woes are much worse than we thought. In fact, over the last 30 years, as compared to other Western countries, we ranked last in...
If you are elderly, how can you increase your risk of dying? The answer is simple: Take a statin drug. Statin drugs are the most profitable drugs for the Big Pharma Cartel. Lipitor, Baycol, Zocor, and Crestor are examples of statin medications. These drugs are prescribed by doctors to...
My last blog post dealt with the nonsense of mandating flu vaccinations for medical personnel. I showed you that the flu vaccine is not effective at preventing the flu nor does it minimize complications from the flu. The Cochrane group is an independent medical research group designed to help...
Two days ago (6.23.12), in my blog article I wrote that 50,000 people died from taking a prescription medication that should not have been prescribed. I was talking about the COX-2 medications such as Vioxx and Celebrex. What happened with these medications is a national tragedy. You would think...