by Dr Joe | Jul 30, 2010 | Medical Research, The Practice of Medicine
With the huge amount of research that surfaces each day, it is not surprising that the quality varies considerably. Sometimes, you actually have to wonder whether the researchers are having a joke at our expense. Dubious research coupled with the tendency to disease... by Dr Joe | Jul 11, 2010 | General Health, Heart Disease, Pharmaceuticals
You would need to be living under a rock not to know that health (disease) care spending is continuing to increase. The total spending in the OECD is increasing faster than economic growth and inflation in the OECD. The USA spends the most at around 16% of GDP nearly... by Dr Joe | Jul 4, 2010 | Politics
Wherever one may be in the world, people know that the Fourth of July is American Independence day. Three years ago I had the pleasure of being in Hawaii on the Fourth of July. This was a family holiday and we were staying in Maui. This gave me the opportunity to see... by Dr Joe | Jul 2, 2010 | Modern Life
Facebook is an interesting beast. Over the last year or so I have grown to over 1000 friends some of whom I actually know, most of whom I have not met personally and some of whom I have actually got to know which has been great. The other interesting thing as the... by Dr Joe | Jun 29, 2010 | Cancer, Mens Health
Since the war on cancer was declared by then president Nixon in 1971 much effort has been devoted to the war. So how are we doing? In 2007 there were 12 million new cases of cancer reported world wide and 7.5 million deaths.These numbers are projected to rise to 27...
