The federal stimulus package has put a lot of money on the table to encourage doctors to embrace electronic medical records – as much as $44,000 per practice. But new and more restrictive security regulations could be a major buzz-kill.
Internally, your body houses an ecosystem that contains more microbes than human cells. This is normal, or at least common. You don’t express disease from these “germs” as long as their numbers are kept in check. But if they are given an environmental edge, they will overgrow and cause disease. Acne, for instance, is caused […]
Like a rampant autoimmune disorder, there’s a pernicious process at work in our nation’s social “tissues,” and it’s causing a lot of damage. The symptoms were readily apparent during the health care reform debates. I’m not talking about the reform plan itself. For the record, I’m not a fan of the Obama administration’s proposal or […]
In the more than four decades that I have been reading and writing about the findings of nutritional science, I have come across nothing more intelligent, sensible and simple to follow than the 64 principles outlined in a slender, easy-to-digest new book called “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual,” by Michael Pollan. Mr. Pollan is not […]
January 25, 2010—Dr. Brian Forrest, program chairman for Holistic Primary Care’s upcoming Heal Thy Practice conference, is featured on the cover of the Jan. 22 edition of Medical Economics, the nation’s leading publication on the business aspects of medical practice. The article, part of MedEc’s “Practicing Excellence” series, profiles Dr. Forrest’s innovative, low-overhead, cash-only practice, […]
Putting its doctors to work next to the shampoo and toothpaste aisles in a chain of New York City drugstores is paying off for a big Manhattan hospital system. Continuum Health Partners’ two-year-old arrangement to place its physicians in walk-in medical clinics at Duane Reade pharmacies has done even better than the health system hoped. […]
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Vol. 8, No. 2. Summer, 2007
According to Dr. Charles Sullivan, a reader of Holistic Primary Care, physicians who decry their patients’ combining herbs and nutraceuticals with conventional drugs would do well to pay closer attention to their own far more dangerous practice of prescribing multiple drugs in combinations that have never been scientifically tested.
HPC readers write in about the details of sleep phase cycles, and a novel approach to preventing Alzheimer’s disease.
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