by Dr Joe | Aug 12, 2011 | General Health, Heart Disease, Medical Tests, Pharmaceuticals, The Practice of Medicine
Approval has been granted for the use of statin medications, which are used to lower cholesterol, by people who do not have high cholesterol. This is based on the rationale of preventing cardiovascular events such as heart attacks. A similar use was approved in the... by Dr Joe | Jul 15, 2011 | General Health, Pharmaceuticals
There is a steady stream of information coming out about the downsides of medications and particularly long term use of medications. Medicines are trialed over relatively short periods of time but can then be taken for five, ten or even twenty years. Trials done over... 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... 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.... by Dr Joe | Feb 12, 2011 | General Health, Immunity, Pharmaceuticals, The Practice of Medicine
The development of penicillin was rightly seen as a great breakthrough in medicine. Fatal infections could now be treated with a “silver bullet.” However in nature nothing is static. Bacteria have been around for longer than humans and have survived by being able to... by Dr Joe | Dec 10, 2010 | Pharmaceuticals, The Practice of Medicine, Weight Loss
This may seem to be a statement of the obvious, but the solution to a behavioral problem is not surgery. Over eating is not a surgical problem-it is a behavioral one. The problem is not because the stomach is too big and needs to be made smaller. It is a function of...
