Archives - 2008

May

Cognitive Therapy for Sleep Problems Works Better Than Drugs
Dealing with Our Healthcare Crisis, One State at a Time
Do We Have a Prescription Drug Problem?
Prescription Medications, Ha Ha Ha!
Is Your Birth Control Pill Driving You Crazy?
Vitamins That Kill!

April

Why Don't We Let the Drug Companies Decide If Bad Outcomes Are Related to their Drugs?
Why Don't They Just Pay Us to Swallow Their Pills?
That Sucking Sound May Be the Pharmaceutical Pipeline Running Dry
Pine Straw Update
Where Do They Come Up With All Those Goofy Names for Prescription Meds Anyway?
Captain Pill Comes Back to his Home Port
Update on Singulair (Montelukast)
Stop That Patient! Or the Corpocracy Rules, Part 1

March

If They Don't Kill Us They Will Drive Us Crazy
Capt. Pill on the High Seas of Pharmaceuticals
They're Drugging Our Drinking Water?

February

Live Without Health Insurance
Do Statins Make You Stupid?
Risk of Breast Cancer with HRT No Big Deal?
Prozac Made Me Do It
Effects of Yoga on Health
Dr. Jarvik Update: He Can't Prescribe or Row
Let's Stop the LDL Cholesterol Numbers Chasing Game
Bisphosphonate Drugs for Osteoporosis Cause Bone Pain
Intensive Blood Glucose Lowering
  With Diabetes Medication Increases Deaths

January

Increased Influenza Resistance to Tamiflu
A Tale of Two Deceptions: Vytorin and Disclosure of Clinical Trial Results
Zetia, Schmetia
Ladies, Don't Fall into the BMD Rat Maze
Shills
Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2007? Veh!



2007

December

Bird Flu Drugs are for Bird Brains
Don't Count on the Government to Save You from Dangerous Drugs
Where are all these Mormons Coming From?
Drought and the Power of Prayer

November

Our Healthcare System Sucks
The Government Wants to Kill You
Flu Shots Are For Idiots
Calcium and Vitamin D are not Necessary for Bone Health

October

Blueberries Do Not Prevent Alzheimer's Disease
Let Them Eat Ritalin
Our Hospitals are Killing Us With MRSA, and Now the Schools Too?
Accutane Made Me Do It
Celebrex and Vioxx Cause Heart Disease, Don't Let Them Tell You Otherwise
Welcome Dalai Lama! And the Health Benefits of MBSR
Gardasil or Guard Your Girls, or Guard Your Girls Against Gardasil?
I'm Having Trouble Dealing with Reality
Should I Give My Wife a Statin? Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?
Blogging Doctors, Rock On! [and] Doctors Man the Barricades!
Private Insurance Company Abuses
  Associated with Medicare Drug Benefit Program Not a Surprise
If You Love Your Children Don't Let them Play Contact Sports
Don't Start Crowing Yet Over WOSCOPS Pravachol Follow-up Study

September

That Statin is Killing My Tennis Game
Gene Linked to Increased Suicidality While On Antidepressants
You Should Not Give Your Children Cold and Cough Medicine
Researchers Trumpet Alcohol Link to Breast Cancer
Amazing Omega 3 Pig Shows You Can Have Your Cake (Bacon?) and Eat It To



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