Gun liability insurance makes enormous sense. If you get a trampoline in your yard, or a pool, insurance companies will raise your rates. These things have injury rates much lower than guns.
Doctors die by suicide at an alarmingly high rate. It’s a painful reality that is far too often ignored––or worse, intentionally concealed.
Treating patients in the midst of a global pandemic has become yet another factor contributing to physician distress and suicide in recent months. The stories of medical professionals lost to suicide amid the Covid-19 outbreak are shining new light on some long-standing and dangerous shortcomings in our systems of medical education and practice.
Diagnostic testing is an essential element of modern clinical practice. But for many practitioners, it is also a major source of headaches. Multiple accounts with different labs, opaque pricing, variations in insurance coverage, tracking patient compliance, compiling and interpreting results, scheduling follow-up visits, translating data into patient-friendly treatment plans….let’s be honest: diagnostic testing is fraught […]
“To me, everything is energy.” That’s the sort of statement one would expect from a shaman, or perhaps a theoretical physicist, not from a neurosurgeon. But Norman Shealy was not a typical neurosurgeon. Over a clinical and research career spanning nearly 70 years, Dr. Shealy challenged and expanded the boundaries of neuroscience in ways that […]
Asparagus is a vegetable with a remarkably long history of use going back to ancient civilizations such as Egypt, Greece, and Rome.1 In those times, asparagus was not just consumed as a food, it was also utilized for its medicinal properties. Modern scientific researchers are now discovering the potential therapeutic benefits of asparagus, particularly its […]
Akkermansia muciniphila, a key player in the gut microbiome, has emerged as a significant influencer of GLP-1, a hormone with profound implications for metabolic health. Learn from Adam Perlman, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer of Pendulum Therapeutics, about the latest research uncovering the impact of A. muciniphila, C.butyricum, B.infantis and other novel microbial strains on GLP-1 signaling, satiety, cravings, […]
Researchers at Monash University in Australia are calling on the global medical community to adopt their new six-step approach to detect and eliminate fraudulent studies before they are incorporated into metanalyses, clinical guidelines, and “best practices.” The RIGID (Research Integrity in Guidelines and evIDence) system is positioned as an international framework for addressing the massive […]
It is time to rethink how we’re using folate, and its derivatives, methylfolate and folinic acid. Recent research suggests that people who routinely take more than 1000 μg of folic acid per day may be at increased risk of cognitive decline, asthma, impaired immune function, and certain types of cancer (Fardous AM, et al. Nutrients. […]
Candida is a commensal microorganism living in the digestive tract of the vast majority of our patients. For most, it causes no harm. But certain common lifestyle factors and medication exposures promote overgrowth of Candida species, leading to a fungal-predominant dysbiosis with sometimes severe systemic symptoms. Candidal overgrowth is often an important piece of the chronic illness […]
Be on the lookout for drug-induced magnesium depletions. That’s one of the major messages from a comprehensive new paper on the clinical impact of magnesium deficiencies recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Many of the most widely prescribed drugs, including diuretics, proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), and certain antibiotics, can cause magnesium wasting. […]
Herbal supplements are very popular, and for good reason: when chosen carefully and used appropriately they provide considerable support in restoring health and mitigating a host of disorders. But how do you—and your patients—know which brands will actually deliver on their claims? Which are free from contaminants, adulterants, and allergens? Which companies are truly investing […]
The End of Obesity, a new episode of the viciously satirical cartoon series, South Park, is a merciless excoriation of American healthcare, one that has some physicians commenting that the show is more documentary than parody. Currently running exclusively on Paramount Plus, this latest installment of the long-running show centers on the rotund Eric Cartman, […]
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