by David Gumpert | Feb 23, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The studies on nutritional supplements are coming fast and furious, it seems. (Just a coincidence?) Now it’s the turn of glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate to treat osteoarthritis, in the current New England Journal of Medicine. And once...
by David Gumpert | Feb 22, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Big Pharma is great at creating "magical" solutions for our problems. It promises cures for the diseases that scare us so much, and solutions for our everyday irritations. I won’t get into the fact that Big Pharma hasn’t come very far in...
by David Gumpert | Feb 21, 2006 | Uncategorized |
I hate to keep returning to The New York Times, but it is doing more than other mainstream publications in trying to make sense of recent studies about nutritional supplements and diet. On Sunday, it attempted to assess the implications of recent studies of women...
by David Gumpert | Feb 17, 2006 | Uncategorized |
A few days ago it was saw palmetto that was being torched. And before that, echinachea, vitamin E, and St. John’s Wort. Once again, though, if you read past the headlines saying women over 50 gain no benefit in preventing osteoporosis or colorectal cancer...
by David Gumpert | Feb 12, 2006 | Uncategorized |
A major part of the "business" of American health care is the sale of pharmaceutical drugs. These drugs are highly profitable for the Pfizers and Bristol-Myers of the world because they hold patents on the formulas, and thus control the prices of the...
by David Gumpert | Feb 8, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Alternative healthcare practitioners are often subjected to charges of "quackery"–that claims they make about treatment are false, and the treatments themselves worthless. I tend to be suspicious of such charges, for two reasons. First, I have spoken...
by David Gumpert | Feb 5, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Sometimes you have to just take your hat off to the ability of governments and their bureaucratic enforcers to reach for new heights of hypocrisy. The Mexican government closed down the clinic where Coretta Scott King, wife of civil rights leader Martin Luther King,...
by David Gumpert | Feb 3, 2006 | Uncategorized |
One of the problems with America’s healthcare industry is that it’s set up much like the rest of American industry–based on generating maximum revenues and profits. The real revenues and profits are in two primary areas: medical devices and...
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