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...
A Medical Record to Carry With You
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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...
Making the Best Medical Decision Possible
Whether it is alternative or allopathic (conventional), bad medicine is just bad medicine. We have patients who take no prescription or over-the-counter medication at any...
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,...
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...
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...
New Study: Fish Oil Helps to Offset Metabolic Syndrome
Previous studies have shown that dietary fat intake plays a critical role in the development of Metabolic Syndrome , a group of health risk factors that are associated with...
Sleep affects kids in school; how much do yours need?
Oh, to be the Bildens. Their three kids go to bed at a decent hour around 9 and sleep through the night. No little ones tiptoeing out of the bedroom for a third glass of...
EWG to discuss toxins on CNN
Recently, EWG President Ken Cook met with CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Mossville, Louisiana, where they talked about the impacts of toxic chemicals on...
Senator McCain Files New Bill That Attacks Your Access to Supplements
McCains bill is called The Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA). It would repeal key sections of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). DSHEA protects supplements if 1) they are...