I know people who suffer with severe unrelenting pain. People for whom the only relief is an opiate medication. But not all pain is equal. In the last decade millions have been prescribed O [...]
A pharmaceutical technician recently admitted that the pharma industry does not expend resources developing drugs it knows will be unprofitable, regardless of whether or not they are needed [...]
Medicinal cannabis is used to treat a myriad of health problems. Unfortunately, in Colorado, marijuana is not allowed to be used to treat post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, which is f [...]
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. And if you can’t afford the insurance, daddy government will give you a subsidy. Of course, you may have to pay that back. And daddy [...]
Dr. Michael Murray discusses one of the most popular classes of prescription drugs. He says the close to 80 to 90 percent of these drugs provides no health benefit to it’s patients, y [...]
Telling a depressed person to suck it up, is about as effective as telling a patient on dialysis to grow an extra pair of kidneys. In an effort to help boost self-confidence among depressed [...]
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial in 2010, led by Mitsuyoshi Urashima and conducted by the Division of Molecular Epidemiology in the the Department of Pediatrics [...]
You know why health care is so damn expensive and doesn’t work? Because there’s PROFIT in keeping people sick and selling them prescription pills that don’t prevent diseas [...]
A recent analysis conducted by ProPublica undermines the long held belief that physicians who accept meals and payments from pharmaceutical and medical device companies do not prescribe dru [...]
Let me tell you an interesting (and disturbing) statistic: When worse comes to worst, three in four physicians would readily refuse chemotherapy for themselves. Why? Because chemotherapy wi [...]
