On November 23, 2009 two juries awarded verdicts totaling $113 million in favor of two women who got breast cancer by taking Premarin and/or Prempro, HRT drugs known to cause cancer, strokes and heart attacks since 2002.
There are more than 10,000 cases awaiting trials in a major class...
Posted January 4, 2010 | 16:06:17 (EST)
This New Year I want to start a tradition to help us all apply the following statement to our health:
"The absence of intervention doesn't necessarily kill us."
The author of the statement is Malcolm Gladwell. He wrote the best-sellers The Tipping Point, Outliers and most...
Posted December 8, 2009 | 16:42:51 (EST)
Last week the US Preventive Services Task Force came out with new guidelines for mammography. Simply stated, the new guidelines recommend that:
1. Routine mammography screening start at age 50 instead of 40 (guidelines provided in 2002).
2. Frequency of screening to be reduced to every two years rather than...
Posted September 17, 2009 | 17:29:40 (EST)
A recent study in the American Journal of Epidemiology looked at data on 1,355 men and women who had their weight and stress levels measured in 1995 and again in 2004.
The findings showed that those who were overweight and obese packed on the pounds even more as time went...
Posted August 19, 2009 | 17:21:56 (EST)
Prevention is a crucial element of healthcare reform. President Obama said that through prevention, Americans will become healthier and thus substantially reduce the costs of healthcare. He extolled the importance of training more primary care physicians, encouraging each and every one of us to take responsibility for getting and staying...
Posted August 5, 2009 | 17:01:02 (EST)
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure", noted Benjamin Franklin. Too bad the founding father is not here to help clarify and guide us with our much needed healthcare reform.
The fact is unless you've been living under a rock for the past decade or so, we...
Posted January 5, 2010 | 10:42:00 (EST)