Is it time for everyone to get the annual influenza vaccine? Don’t flu vaccines save lives? I will let you answer these questions after reading this article. It is hard to escape the recommendations for all of us to get a flu vaccine. Starting at age six months, every citizen is urged to get a
(Note: I wrote this blog with my friend, Dr. Lindsey Berkson) We can’t live without hormones. Hormones have much more to do with the body than just controlling reproductive actions. In fact, hormones control every bodily function, which includes the neurological, cardiovascular systems as well as the kidneys and even our vocal chords. In order
It has been 15 months since a senior CDC scientist, Dr. William Thompson, became a whistleblower when he admitted that a 2004 CDC study was falsified in order to show that there was no link between the MMR vaccine and autism. In August of 2014 Dr. Thompson stated, “I regret that my coauthors and I
Over the weekend, I travelled to Chicago to lecture my colleagues. I was asked what I thought about evidence-based medicine. In fact, I am frequently hammered by my conventional colleagues because they claim that I do not follow evidence-based medicine. Of course, I disagree with that statement as I am always reading the medical literature
(Note: I was interviewed for this article which was posted to Newsmax.com.) It’s fall, and health officials are beginning their yearly push to convince Americans to get the latest version of the flu shot. Last year’s vaccine was a tremendous dud — a new strain of H3N2 influenza emerged after the vaccine was formulated, and the
In the New York Times (Friday, September 18. 2015), a large-font headline proclaimed, “Jardiance, a Diabetes Drug, Cut Cardiovascular Deaths by 38%, Study Says.” The accompanying article goes on to state, “For the first time, a widely used modern diabetes drug has been shown to reduce deaths from cardiovascular disease, a long-sought goal of treatment,
Mammography has been promoted as the best way to screen women for breast cancer. There is no question that mammography identifies breast cancer at an earlier stage when compared to older techniques like the breast exam. However, the key question to ask is, “Do women who undergo mammography have a lowered mortality rate compared to
Folks, Last Sunday (August 30, 2015) an article about the new cholesterol-lowering drugs appeared in the New York Times (NYT). The article can be read here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/health/new-alternatives-to-statins-add-to-a-quandary-on-cholesterol.html?_r=1 The article focused on the side effects of statin drugs and it questioned if doctors will prescribe the new drugs even though they are very expensive. After reading it in
Today, a patient asked me if she should get the pneumonia vaccine. I told her that Sylvia Booth Hubbard from Newsmax just interviewed me about this topic and that I would repost the Newsmax article. “Once again the government is pushing worthless vaccines on unsuspecting Americans,” says Dr. David Brownstein, holistic doctor and author of
OPEN LETTER TO U.S. CONGRESSWOMAN BRENDA L. LAWRENCE OF MICHIGAN’S 14TH DISTRICT FROM DAVID BROWNSTEIN, MD. August 14, 2015 Dear Representative Lawrence, I have tried to contact your office by email and phone without success. I am a board-certified physician who practices in your district—West Bloomfield, MI. I am concerned about the problems at the U.S.