The mainstream media has been all over a new announcement from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas (the largest cancer center in the country). They have pledged to significantly reduce the [...]
Author: Dr. Micozzi
From magic bullets to friendly fire
I was just asked to serve on the Medical Alumni Council for the University of Pennsylvania, representing the nation’s oldest medical school (1765). While I was there recently I had the pleasure [...]
Oral arguments
Like it or not, when it comes to the issue of smoking…for the past 25 years, the push for regulations and legal arguments have dominated the discussion. And this has often left science by the [...]
Deep into organic
When it comes to “going organic” these days, there’s one thing you can count on: the government making it more costly and confusing for us all. The “organic” food movement began after World War [...]
Change of seasons
It’s that time of year when the sun is rising later and setting earlier. And it sits lower in the sky during its daily traverse through the heavens. Which means the sun is no longer getting [...]
EXTRA Politics Aside
I’m fortunate to have many loyal and thoughtful readers. One recently shared the opinion that there should be no room for partisan politics in professional practices like medicine and science, or [...]
Getting off the sodium obsession
Of course I couldn’t let yesterday’s coverage of the mainstream’s misguided and much-failed approach to high blood pressure go without a mention of one of their greatest blunders… I’ve warned [...]
Most dangerous health risk still ignored
I’ve repeatedly reported on the government’s decades-long, misguided, misinformed and ineffective campaign to control blood pressure. And now mainstream media outlets are catching on. You [...]
Not a shred of evidence indeed
As the seasons change here on Cape Ann, we’re bidding farewell to the last of our summer guests. And while the weather was generally cool and crisp these past couple of weeks…we had plenty of [...]
Millions can’t afford “affordable care”
Last month, we discovered another “glitch” in Obamacare that will deprive millions of hard-working middle-class families of health insurance. Now The New York Times (usually an ardent supporter [...]