The IPM Blog
Please browse our posts and articles for more information about many different health related topics.
A Medical Record to Carry With You
Government agencies have become obsessed with requirements for universally accessible medical records. They will enforce this requirement by law within the next two years. I...
Mammography: Perhaps Not a Lifesaving Procedure
A New England Journal of Medicine article casts doubt on the value of screening mammography in preventing death from breast cancer. (Effect of Three Decades of Screening...
An Eventful 2012 at IPM
Happy and eventful New Year to everyone. Wonderful times await you. At the Institute for Progressive Medicine we were involved in a number of new protocols this last year. We...
New Videos from Dr. Harden on Thyroid Treatment
Dr. Julie Harden recently spoke about different aspects of thyroid health, as well as The Institute for Progressive Medicine's approach in treating and preventing...
Do You Need the Shingles Vaccine?
As a result of vigorous drug company advertising and recommendations made by several health organizations, many patients have come to me asking if I advise getting the...
Acupuncture Provides True Pain Relief in Study
Source: New York Times Health A new study of acupuncture the most rigorous and detailed analysis of the treatment to date found that it can ease migraines and arthritis and other forms of...
Urgency Incontinence: A New Therapy
Urinary urgency incontinence is leakage of urine due to inability to control the urge to urinate. Patients simply cannot get to the bathroom soon enough. It differs from...
Your Physician Should Be Your Advocate
A patient goes to a doctor's office with the belief that the doctor knows something, or has the ability to do something, that will help the patient. It is the doctor's...
Lose Weight With Testosterone
Testosterone deficiency is commonplace, and closely related to age. Levels decline 1% yearly after the age of 40. We also see declines in men under stress, either emotional...
PSA Screening for Prostate Cancer: Going the Way of the Passenger Pigeon?
The US Preventive Services Task Force has recommended against routine PSA screening in men for prostate cancer. The recommendation was based on the conclusion that there is...
