Depression will soon become the number one disease in the USA, if it has not already. Sure, we all get a little blue from time to time, but a significant number of people become incapacitated by it. Some even take their lives, unable to escape the darkness that mars their lives. What

To EHR Is Inhumane—Addressing the Shortcomings of the Interface, Medscape March 26th 2019 That is the title that Peter M. Antevy, MD and Tracey A. Loscar, BA, NRP chose for their excellent article reproduced below. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I have written about the factors

Physician burnout has reached critical proportions. It has been shown to affect more than 1/3 pf doctors. Many of them are depressed and feeling like the profession has not lived to their altruistic, humanitarian expectations. Some feel trapped in a health care system that mistreats t

It does not make sense to me to take hormones indiscriminately to stave off the natural effects of aging. Yet, many practitioners recommend them to their patients. It is best to look at IMPARTIAL, NEUTRAL EVIDENCE before venturing into this field. For example, sex hormones for women a

I hope you take the time to study this issue, instead of blindly accepting what CNN and FOX news are telling you. Both lack the WISDOM of finding a middle ground. How well does a bird fly with only a left or right wing? It is not about CAPITAL or LABOR. It is about a BALANCE of both.

I grew up drinking Mate. My cousin Mac hated it. In those days, he was the only obese kid I knew. I regret to admit I called him Tubby. He also had red hair. Anyway, I just ran into another article saying that Mate, an herb drink, helps improve our metabolism.[1] It probably works thr

Does Big Food know this? Hint: the tobacco wars. Reference Processed foods and food reward J. SCIENCE 25 JAN 2019:346-347. “Evidence is amassing that the nutritional content of processed foods is not accurately conveyed to the brain. This raises the possibility that how foods are prep

Sugar: spinning a web of influence BMJ 2015;350:h231 Public health scientists are involved with the food companies being blamed for the obesity crisis, reports Jonathan Gornall. An investigation by The BMJ has uncovered evidence of the extraordinary extent to which key public health e