Last week, I reported on the sad headlines from The New York Times about yet another failed cholesterol drug called evacetrapib. In a new study, the drug reduced cholesterol all right. But [...]
Last week, I reported on the sad headlines from The New York Times about yet another failed cholesterol drug called evacetrapib. In a new study, the drug reduced cholesterol all right. But [...]
I have been warning you about the many dangers associated with “routine” colonoscopy screenings for colon cancer. Colonoscopy is an especially poor choice when you compare it to all the safe, [...]
President Richard Nixon declared the “war on cancer” in 1971. Yet cancer rates have generally gone up ever since. Of course, as in all wars, the declaration of war on cancer just signaled, “let [...]
Colonoscopy is an overly expensive, overused, and dangerous colon cancer screening procedure. It’s an especially poor choice when you compare it to all the safe, inexpensive alternatives. [...]
The New York Times runs the slogan, “all the news that’s fit to print” on its masthead. And on April 3, 2016, The Times finally saw fit to print an impartial review of a new, expensive [...]
Over the years, in certain “high society” circles in places like Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., I often heard women say, “you can never be too rich or too thin.” I often felt like adding, “or [...]
The government-industrial-medical complex tells you to get a risky colonoscopy as your “go-to” screening procedure for colon cancer. This can be terribly bad advice, especially since you have so [...]
Almost everyone misplaces their keys, their wallet, or their phone from time to time. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you’re on the road to Alzheimer’s disease. After all, Alzheimer’s is not [...]
Yesterday, I reported on the new analysis by Johns Hopkins University researchers that shows medical error is the No. 3 cause of death in the United States. Each year, medical errors cause more [...]
Heart disease and cancer are the No. 1 and No. 2 causes of death in the U.S. And now, according to a new analysis by Johns Hopkins University researchers, we have a new No. 3 cause of death [...]