What IF cell phones caused brain cancer?

URL:  http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/in...

What would you do - right now - if you discovered that regular use of a cell phone is DIRECTLY related to brain tumors? Would you stop using your cell phone, use some sort of earphone (which one?), reduce your cell usage, use a speakerphone, do nothing different?



"BlackBerry Bold advises users to, 'keep the BlackBerry device at least 0.98 inch (25 millimeters) from your body...'" FROM YOUR BODY, not just your head. I'm beginning to wonder if I should even be carrying one of those things around in my pocket.

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Also need to avoid all soft drinks

URL:  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-30/children-may-b...

Yes, there are chemicals in sports drinks, many of which are also found in soda pop - often consumed by the carton by young people. Regular consumptions can lead to all sorts of bad outcomes - including injuries. See http://bit.ly/jRpfZD

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Really? "..reduce preventable infection rates"?

URL:  http://www.npr.org/2011/05/28/136712657/hospitals-face-...

I would never expect to see a headline like this - even in a gazillion years. The article itself would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious - "...patients are irreparably harmed".

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iSuck - Handy, Inexpensive, COOL - iSuck

URL:  http://www.thecompounder.com/component/virtuemart/detai...

It's called the "iSuck". No, it doesn't have anything to do with medicine or health. It merely sticks things together. At least take a look.

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I'm wondering how that RECOVERY thing is working.

URL:  http://www.foxbusiness.com/index.html

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Ddespite the lack of scientific evidence.

URL:  http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011...

This is the kind of article I like to read. It's about local honey. It is a rare health professional today who will actually make a comment about something he/she doesn't have scientific proof for. Dr. Joe Mercola often steps out and makes statements that are rational and potentially helpful - even when he could be wrong. He's a doctor with a brain, a grasp on what it means to be healthy, and a backbone.



You never know what you don't know until you know that you don't know anything.

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Red Yeast Rice might be worth it IF...

http://dearpharmacist.com/?p=1647

... you are convinced that low cholesterol is healthy. Since there is scant evidence that high cholesterol causes health problems, using any drug to lower cholesterol is a prescription for disaster - even when the drug is hidden in a natural substance. Red Yeast Rice - when it works - is actually a statin. It's probably weaker than one of the commercial drug products, but it can still have the same effect - artificially lowering cholesterol. That isn't necessarily a good thing.



Personally, I am not interested in using a drug to change my cholesterol levels. I'll live and eat well and let the levels be what they will. \ If you want to play around with your levels, you'd probably be better off using a drug that's standardized instead of a non-prescription product that may or may not contain the drug you want.



Also note that Red Yeast Rice products that don't have any statin components are likely to be the safest.

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Old doctors vs. Young doctors - serious differences.

URL:  http://consumer.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=653049

This could very well be at the crux of the problems in health care today, "older doctors are more likely to recommend lifestyle changes ... while younger doctors are more likely to prescribe medications."



We seem to have devolved into a system of health that looks at test results and associated drug treatments before considering how the patient feels and lives.



I suggest that "older doctors" learned these things in medical school. Modern medical school graduates seem to have been shorted in the areas of diet and lifestyle - probably in the spirit of expediency. After all, they are required to see many patients each day - and pay off their student loans. They no longer have time to listen to the patient and act clinically.

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Let me get this straight.

URL:  http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-requiring-pages-to-...

If I'm clear on this, Facebook allows any user to post a comment to any page, but drug makers do not wish to let users comment on their pages. In the spirit of dialogue and open communication, Like other brand companies, I'd think a drug maker would welcome comments from people who view their Facebook pages. Why would they even want to have a page if they aren't interested in dialogue?



Perhaps, the drug makers think of Facebook as "just another marketing technique". Therefore, they really aren't interested in our comments. Their focus is on SELLING products, nothing else.



They expect to get their way because of "...massive amounts of funding that Pharma has for communications and marketing..." This simple comment says a lot.

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