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Medical Doctor, author, speaker, media presenter and health industry consultant, Dr Joe Kosterich wants you to be healthy and get the most out of life. Joe writes for numerous medical and mainstream publications and is also a regular on radio and television. He is often called to give opinions in medico legal cases and is an advisor to Reed Medical Conferences. Joe is Medical Advisor to Medicinal Cannabis Company Little Green Pharma and is Chairman of Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction Association. He has self-published two books: Dr Joe’s DIY Health and 60 Minutes To Better Health. Through all this he continues to see patients as a GP each week.

Nutrition

October 21st, 20190332 Here is a disturbing study finding. Breathing air has a 100% association with death. Every person who has died has breathed air during their lives. Clearly, we need public health messages about the harms of breathing the air. The precautionary principle demands that we act before we know the full story. Obviously ( I hope) this is...
The Practice of Medicine

October 7th, 20190816 Here is a statement of the obvious. The only thing that we should inhale into our lungs is air. Interestingly, an observational study could conclude that there is a 100% correlation between breathing air and death. Everyone who has died in the history of the planet has breathed air. This says more about statistical observational studies...
Children's Health

September 23rd, 20190659 The opioid crisis in the USA has entered the next phase. Purdue Pharmaceuticals, which manufactured OxyContin is looking towards Chapter 11 bankruptcy. An Oklahoma court found Johnson and Johnson had intentionally played down the dangers and oversold the benefits of opioid medications. The issues with opioids are now well known....
Children's Health

September 9th, 20190496 There is a fantastic quote by Mark Twain which says “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail”.  To the medical profession, every problem can look like a medical one having a medical solution. Issues may require medical involvement without being medical problems. As individuals and as a profession doctors can and...
The Practice of Medicine

August 26th, 20190684 Much is made of the evidence base of modern medicine. It is certainly the case that many trials are done and that to bring a pharmaceutical to market requires trial evidence to show that the drug is better than placebo and that side effects are acceptable. There is one catch in all of this. Who determines the quality or lack thereof,...
Modern Life

August 12th, 20190656 Some weeks one wonders if we are living in a Monty Python sketch. There has been the case of a person in Canada who identifies as a woman but has had no surgery, complaining to the human rights commission that a female beautician refused to handle and wax the scrotum. In a #metoo world this is bizarre. It reminds me of the lumberjack...
General Health

August 5th, 20190630 Just when you thought that the antics of the nanny state and big public health could not get any worse or more ridiculous, they prove you wrong. The Cockburn Council  in Perth has asked food truck operators to submit their menus prior to being allowed to attend a community event in the town. Those who don’t comply with “health star...
The Practice of Medicine

July 15th, 20190531 It is remarkable that anyone on earth is still alive. The eleventh version of InternationalStatistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD 11) is due to come into effect on January 1 2022. The ICD 10 was adopted in 1990. A pre-release  of the new version has been released to allow “ Member States to prepare...
General Health

July 1st, 20190459 For the record, I enjoy a glass or two of wine with dinner and have enjoyed a glass at social functions. It is even the case that through the course of my existence, I have, on a few (genuinely a few) occasions had a glass or so more than was necessarily ideal. Other people enjoy a glass of gin, or beer or whiskey. The vast majority of...
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