Antibiotics

Have a Placebo

Doug Bremner | Posted 10.28.2008 | Living


Doug Bremner

One article in bmj shows that half of doctors prescribe their patients placebos; another shows that 23% of patients on statins were women without heart disease.

God's Hybrid

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 10.17.2008 | Living


Dr. Jeffrey McCombs

Somewhere along the primordial way, a bunch of micro-organisms became enclosed by, fewer in number, but larger "tissue" cells and the evolutionary rac...

A Response to Sally Pipes

Holly Robinson Peete | Posted 10.14.2008 | Living


Holly Robinson Peete

By using vaccines, we've been able to eradicate such diseases as smallpox, polio and measles. But the mercury used for decades as a preservative in the vaccinations is poison, pure and simple.

Simple Economics, Complicated Medicine

Peter A. Ubel | Posted 09.08.2008 | Business


Peter A. Ubel

Overuse of antibiotics leads not only to antibiotic resistance, but also creates potentially life-threatening side effects.

Is Silver the Solution?

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 04.29.2008 | Living


Alison Rose Levy

This week Detroit doctors reported an outbreak of seven cases of VRSA (Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), a close cousin of MRSA, or Methici...

Gay Sex Equals Death! Again! Always!

Sara Whitman | Posted 01.16.2008 | Living


Sara Whitman

Whenever gay men's sex lives ends up being classified as deadly instead of focusing on the pharmaceutical industries responsibility for the growth of antibiotic resistant infections, I have to wonder why.

USDA Revokes Tyson's "No Antibiotics" Label

AP | Marcus Kabel | Posted 11.20.2007 | Business


Tyson Foods Inc. plans to revise labels that say its fresh chicken is "raised without antibiotics" after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it ma...

Over Medicated and Over-Vaccinated: The Unintended Consequences of Medicines Meant to Protect

Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.19.2007 | Living


Deirdre Imus

Why is it that veterinarians have a better appreciation than mainstream physicians of how over-vaccinating might overload the immune system?