Written on Oct, 21, 2015
by DrB
By Dr. Mercola Anti-viral flu drugs like Tamiflu (oseltamivir) are stockpiled in many countries, including the US, for treating and preventing seasonal and pandemic influenza. Influenza can be deadly, but if you’re otherwise healthy, it typically is a self-limiting illness that runs its…
Written on Oct, 20, 2015
by DrB
I was asked recently what my reason for not vaccinating my children was. I’ve been asked this many times. It’s an understandable question, coming from those who are shocked to learn that people even consider bucking the medical system and their infamous childhood…
Written on Oct, 19, 2015
by DrB
Fri, 08/07/2015 – 9:14am Bevin Fletcher, Associate Editor Helene Benveniste, MD, PhD, and Hedok Lee, PhD, analyzed the glymphatic pathways of rodent models to assess how body posture affects the clearance of brain waste. (Image: Stony Brook University) How you sleep – on…
Written on Oct, 19, 2015
by DrB
Bill Would Add Nurses, Physician Assistants to Pharma Payments Database. Drugmakers disclose their payments to doctors, dentists, even chiropractors. But spending on nurse practitioners and physician assistants is excluded. Legislation in the Senate would change that. by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Oct. 8, 2015,…
Written on Oct, 14, 2015
by DrB
New study highlights the fact that estimates in ‘To Err is Human’ report were low September 20, 2013 | By Ilene MacDonald Medical errors leading to patient death are much higher than previously thought, and may be as high as 400,000 deaths a year,…
Written on Oct, 06, 2015
by DrB
In the wake of the obsessive push to give everyone a flu shot that doesn’t work and the pathological attempt to find something else the flu shot might do, like prevent pneumonia, Doctors are looking more and more like desperate drug pushers. Oh…