California Authorities Rule on Malpractice Case

by | Jun 12, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

The office of California’s Attorney General has advised the father of a young woman who died shortly after giving birth to her first child that the evidence is insufficient to warrant legal action against the two physicians accused of screwing up. I wrote about...

Throwing Away Food

by | Jun 7, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

I’ve been trying to avoid as much as possible consuming three biggies in our diet: sugar, dairy, and wheat (along with all the artificial sweeteners and caffeine).  I’ve actually gotten pretty used to not consuming these items. The big challenge...

Exposing the Conventional System

by | May 31, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

The key to changing America’s approach to healthcare from obsessing about curing disease to encouraging robust health as a way to avoid disease is education. The best way to educate people about the problems of our conventional health system may be to regularly...

Two Wrongs Don’t Make…

by | May 25, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

The thing that bothers me most about Joseph Mercola, the osteopath whose site I criticized in my latest BusinessWeek.com column, is his hypocrisy. He rails on against the tactics of Big Pharma and the medical establishment, and then he employs questionable tactics of...

Questioning Traditional Approaches

by | May 23, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

I still occasionally receive calls and emails from men (and sometimes from their wives), based on my article three years ago about my personal experience deciding on a course of treatment after having been diagnosed with prostate cancer (for more details and a link to...

Too Much of a Good Thing for Big Pharma?

by | May 10, 2006 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

I was watching the national news last evening, doing my usual switching among the network programs hoping to catch news on one while advertising was showing on another. Of course, they have it timed so their ads all run at precisely the same times, so I couldn’t...