It’s been a while since the 2500 year-old Hippocratic Oath underwent a major revision. The last one was in 1964. But earlier this month, the World Medical Association voted unanimously to amend the venerable declaration to include a statement underscoring the need for physicians to take care of their own health with the same acumen […]
Pharmaceutical fixes for Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are proving very hard to find. The latest drug failure–Axovant Sciences’ once-daily intepirdine–dashes hope in an entire mechanism once thoguht to be important for attenuating dementia.
We at Cyrex would like to respond to the recent article by Dr Madiha Saeed, The Wheat Zoomer – Is It a Game Changer for Gluten Testing?
The fields of music and healing lost a true luminary last month, with the passing of Turkish music therapist and researcher, Dr. Rahmi Oruç Guvenç. His death on July 4 from heart failure was reported in the Daily Sabah, a Turkish newspaper. He is survived by his wife and close collaborator, Azize Andrea Guvenç, and […]
Healthy living is big business. Very big business. Which is why the proverbial 800 lb gorilla just reached for the biggest ripest bunch of organic bananas on the tree. Amazon’s surprise move to acquire the Whole Foods grocery chain for well over $13 billion set the business and financial world aflutter last Friday, with predictions […]
Holistic Primary Care honors the memory, and celebrates the life and work of Fredi Kronenberg, PhD, a pioneer in the field of botanical medicine and women’s health, who died on April 20. A Stanford-trained physiologist with a deep love and reverence for the natural world, Dr. Kronenberg found her professional niche in the world of […]
Today’s rapidly growing population of cancer survivors obliges all frontline clinicians to develop a better understanding of this complex disease, and to learn how to support patients both during and after chemotherapy, radiation and other forms of treatment. Improvements in early detection and better therapies have contributed to a continued increase in the number of […]
In a stunning display of poor taste and poor timing, an online pharmacy company has blanketed New York City subway cars with ads insinuating that doctors are spying on their patients.
The Food and Drug Administration uses a system of close-hold news embargoes and “Faustian bargains” to control when and how major media outlets report on the agency’s rulings and other activities, according to a recent article in the venerable Scientific American magazine. In his article titled, “How the FDA Manipulates the Media,” author Charles Seife […]
The numbers are small, but the headlines linking dietary supplements to liver damage are big— big enough to generate yet another round of medical and regulatory hand-wringing about the problem of “uncontrolled” supplements.
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