With all the hype around supposed “anti-aging” remedies today, it seems as though some scientists won’t stop until we can all live forever. Right now, Sirtris (a division of multi-national drug [...]
Author: Dr. Micozzi
NIH Revisited
After three decades of trying to accomplish things in Washington, I finally found it was much easier to realize a lifelong personal ambition. Which was to return to the area where I grew up. And [...]
Hope for some REAL change
The first medical conference I organized on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) was held back in 1991. And I remember being particularly impressed with the evidence supporting CAM for [...]
Cashing in on organ donation
Speaking of Obamacare and organ donation… According to an article by Dr. Sally Satel in The Wall Street Journal last month, Obamacare has actually added a new twist to this whole netherworld. Now [...]
Kidney donors get short shrift
I told you about the shocking scandal behind the organ transplant industry. How overeager surgeons are harvesting organs from patients who may not truly be “dead.” (And how the definition of [...]
The quick and the dead
How dead should a person be before transplant surgeons swoop in and harvest their organs for donation? According to a new book, “pretty dead” is close enough for many of these surgeons. According [...]
The more things change, the more they stay the same
In the September 2012 issue of my Insiders’ Cures newsletter, I present the nutritional recommendations published in the Journal of the American Medical Association 10 years ago. These [...]
Obamacare goes from bad to worse
It seemed like a bad joke when former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi infamously and incredibly stated we would have to pass the healthcare reform bill in order to find out what’s in it. But now we’re [...]
When “organic” is doubly meaningless
On Wednesday, I told you that “organic” food has become little more than the latest consumer scam (“Big Food takes over the organic market”). With Big Food running the show, the term organic is [...]
The First Lady of eating disorders
One-third of parents are worried that the incessant focus on foods in our country may be driving their children towards developing an unhealthy preoccupation with body image. Potentially leading [...]