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Taking Pills Is Not A Free Lunch

by Dr Joe | Jul 7, 2011 | General Health, Pharmaceuticals, Videos

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csPmWjaLNVQ[/youtube] Dr JoeDr Joe Kosterich – Doctor, Health Industry Consultant and Author Doctor, speaker, author, and health industry consultant, Joe is WA State Medical Director for IPN, Clinical editor of Medical...

Wars Are Not The Answer – With Cancer Or Drugs

by Dr Joe | Jul 1, 2011 | Cancer, General Health, Pharmaceuticals, Politics

Sometimes it is surprising to learn the origins of things, which are almost taken for granted. It was only two years ago that I discovered that the war on cancer was declared by then President Nixon who in 1971 was aiming for victory and a cure for cancer by 1976....

How To Turn A Condition Into A Disease By “Selling Sickness”

by Carolyn Thomas | May 30, 2011 | General Health, The Practice of Medicine

Guest Blogger Carolyn Thomas “Selling sickness” means that the line between healthy and sick becomes blurred – and demand for medical treatment increases. If you’re a drug company, it’s a swell way to get consumers to demand treatment that may or may not even be...

Overdiagnosis – The Downside Of Early Detection

by Dr Joe | Apr 29, 2011 | Cancer, General Health, Medical Research, Medical Tests

Medicine is presented as being highly scientific. This is until information comes out which questions certain assumptions that underpin the practice of medicine. One of the mantras of modern medicine is that early detection is good. This seems logical enough. However...

Do Not Get Scared By Health “Epidemic” Hysteria

by Dr Joe | Mar 11, 2011 | Flu, General Health, Health Policy, Medical Research, Politics, Weight Loss

There is an old adage about lies, damned lies and statistics. This is something we see all too often in medical papers and the claims made off the back of them. The person in the street can get quite confused or alarmed about epidemics, which are hitting us, or great...

Breast Cancer Treatment Study Shows Less Surgery Is Equally Effective

by Dr Joe | Feb 18, 2011 | Cancer, Medical Research, Womens Health

There is a general impression that medicine is constantly changing. In fact medicine is very conservative and change which challenges conventional thinking (as against using new drugs) can take a long time to be adopted. One major change though may be upon us. A...
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