The IPM Blog
Please browse our posts and articles for more information about many different health related topics.
The Magic and Mystery of Trigger Points
A physician well-known to this corner had a sudden onset of severe low back pain going down both legs. He had been engaged in a vigorous physical program for years, and was...
Disproven Medical Practices Are Still the “Standard of Care”
An editorial in JAMA, Jan 4, 2012, deplores the persistent promotion of outmoded medical practices, in the guise of being valid. (Reversals of Established Medical Practices,...
Bake Your Fish, Don’t Fry It
Of 260 normal older adults, those who ate baked or broiled fish weekly, but not fried fish, had greater gray matter volume in areas of the brain responsible for cognition and...
Cancer Prevention Guidelines
The American Cancer Society has published extensive lifestyle guidelines for cancer prevention. (CA Cancer J Clin 2012;62:30-67) There are 572,000 cancer deaths in the United...
Research and Cigarette Smoking
The first major quantitative study linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer was published in 1928. Forty years later, 50% of adults in the United States were still smoking...
Sermorelin – A Growth Hormone Stimulator
Government law restricts the use of human growth hormone (HGH) to three conditions: adult onset human growth hormone deficiency, inflammatory bowel disease, and adult immune...
Medical Specialization and the Loss of Humanity
The New England Journal of Medicine, the most prestigious and influential medical research publication in this country, enters its 200th year. During that time, its staff...
Nutrient Therapies and Mental Health
A soon-to-be-released book, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments in Psychiatry, by Stradford, Vickar, Berger, and Cass, lists a number of nutrient therapies...
Drugs: Effects and Side Effects
Drug companies expediently and glibly list drug actions, meaning beneficial effects for which they are prescribed, separately from another section called side effects,...
What We Want to See in 2012
1. Doctors spending more time with patients The average office visit for established patients in most practices runs 7-15 minutes, and 30 minutes for new patients. That is...
