by David Gumpert | Mar 28, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Though I believe Dr. Andrew Weil made a major strategic error in deciding to "go commercial"–that is, endorse products and put out his own line of nutritional supplements, per my new column on BusinessWeek.com–I continue to admire him for...
by David Gumpert | Mar 23, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I know the heading sounds like a contradiction in terms. When was the last time you met with a doctor who struck you as idealistic? Yet that’s the tag I feel like applying to Peter Salgo, a physician who wrote an op-ed in today’s New York Times, "The...
by David Gumpert | Mar 20, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I had wanted to write something about a major study that came out last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, which makes a strong case that nearly all Americans, no matter their wealth or education or where they live, receive less than 60% of “recommended...
by David Gumpert | Mar 14, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Today, it is Vitamin B. The New York Times has an advance summary about research to be published in the Journal of the AMA concluding that vitamins B6 and B12 don’t prevent heart attacks in individuals with serious heart disease. The doctors quoted in the...
by David Gumpert | Mar 12, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Should nonprofit organizations in the healthcare arena be exploiting their nonprofit status to rake in big money? Pat Sullivan raises this question on his excellent blog with a critique about Planned Parenthood, and the sizable revenues it generates from...
by David Gumpert | Mar 11, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Newsweek must be monitoring this blog. No, I won’t flatter myself. But its March 13 cover story is "Diet Hype: Confused? From Fat to Calcium, How the Media Collides with Science", which takes off nicely from items I’ve posted here over the last...
by David Gumpert | Mar 8, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Back in the 1970s, my wife, Jean, took a course in Transcendental Meditation, or TM, as it was known. The course was expensive, at least several hundred dollars (which was expensive in those days). It consisted of a few one-and-two-hour sessions, but the highlight was...
by David Gumpert | Mar 4, 2006 | Uncategorized |
There’s this new site called Gather.com, which is supposed to be kind of a networking site, an alternative to blogs. I’m not sure exactly what to make of it, but I thought it was interesting enough that I collected a number of my comments about nutritional...
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