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...
by David Gumpert | Feb 1, 2006 | Uncategorized |
Congress is about to tighten the rules for elderly individuals who use Medicaid to pay for their nursing home care. Medicaid is supposed to be a program to provide medical assistance to the poor, but over the years, middle class elderly have resorted to using the...
by David Gumpert | Jan 29, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The concept of "functional food" is generating lots of excitement in the scientific community…and on Wall Street. There are various definitions of functional food, but generally it refers to food enhanced with vitamins and other types of nutrients....
by David Gumpert | Jan 24, 2006 | Uncategorized |
One of the major challenges facing every patient is dealing with the "ideologies" that permeate health care. Ideologies, of course, are supposed to explain all aspects of political, religious, or other major areas of life, and thus are all-encompassing and...
by David Gumpert | Jan 23, 2006 | Uncategorized |
The traditional media have over the years tended to take a cynical approach to "alternative" health approaches and the nutritional supplements and emphasis on prevention that are often part of alternative treatments. Many seemed to take delight in scientific...
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