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... by Dr Joe | Nov 23, 2010 | ADHD, Children's Health, Parenting
It is with some shock that I discovered that a pharmaceutical company is doing a trial of antidepressant use in children as young as seven. The stated purpose of the trial is to compare Paxil to placebo for eight weeks in children and adolescents aged seven through... by Dr Joe | Oct 1, 2010 | ADHD, General Health, Pharmaceuticals
When too many of us take too many drugs, there are consequences. These are both economic and human. The solution is to use drugs judiciously and not as a replacement for being responsible for what we put in our mouths. Human inventions are not intrinsically good or... by Dr Joe | Sep 17, 2010 | Health & Wellness, Mens Health, Womens Health
The knockback by the FDA of a new drug for female sexual desire again casts a spotlight on the medicalization of life. The drug was knocked back for the simple reason that it had not been found to actually work Interestingly the comparison is made with drugs like...
