| 08/30/2005 - The Last Place You'd Want to Go If You Were Sick |
| Statistics I've cited in the past show that a combination of hospital-borne infections, surgical errors, adverse drug reactions and just plain old medical malpractice add up to the third leading cause of death in this country… |
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| 08/29/2005 - Too Much Television is Harmful to Kids' Minds |
| In the last Daily Dose, I broached the subject of how too much television is harmful to kids' minds. But inasmuch as eliminating a kid's exposure to TV isn't practical (or even really possible), this raised an interesting question: How much is TOO MUCH? |
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| 08/26/2005 - Too Much TV may Hinder Childhood Learning and Development |
| According to an article in the July issue of the magazine, a trio of recent studies shows that not only does regular television viewing NOT help to accomplish these goals, but it actually hinders childhood learning and development to a significant degree. |
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| 08/24/2005 - The Overuse of Antibiotics |
| It's been a while since I touched on the overuse of antibiotics. In the past (for the last 40 years, actually), I've recommended against the widespread prescription of antibiotics in all but truly appropriate or acute cases. Why? |
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| 08/22/2005 - Sales of Low-carb Foods Declining |
| Food industry and stock-market analysts have been predicting for months now that sales of low-carbohydrate foods would decline, but I guess I didn't really believe it. |
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| 08/19/2005 - The Dangers of Customizable Coffee |
| That was back before some pointy-headed, bean-counting MBA somewhere figured out that they could sell coffee like ice cream - customizable in a bunch of sizes and with every conceivable kind of topping, and in every flavor under the sun. |
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| 08/16/2005 - The Exercise Scam |
| Sweat Swindle Time to revisit one of my core issues: The exercise scam. For many Americans, exercise is thought to be the tonic that cures all ills. Anyone can see that this isn't just a whim of the young and beautiful, either. |
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| 08/15/2005 - Non-conventional healing techniques |
| Despite some recent challenges in both the U.S. and abroad to the efficacy of non-conventional (read: non-drug and non-surgical) healing techniques, support for these therapies remains strong on both sides… |
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| 08/12/2005 - Updates About West Nile Virus |
| As you know, I'm in the habit of giving you frequent updates about the West Nile virus, a disease that has infected more than 16,000 Americans since 1999… |
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| 08/09/2005 - The Alternative Medicine Battle Part II |
| In the last issue of the Daily Dose, I remarked about the likely future of the state of medical care in the U.S. - a litigious, pill-and-scalpel dictatorship-of-the-dollar that's not a very pretty picture, from where I'm standing. |
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| 08/08/2005 - The Alternative Medicine Battle |
| On both sides of the Atlantic, a war now rages. Not an armed conflict against an outside aggressor (although that's happening, too), but a contest of citizens against their respective sovereigns… The battleground: Alternative medicine. |
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| 08/05/2005 - The Truth Behind Scientific Drug Studies |
| One of the fundamental pillars of what's called The Scientific Method - the empirical standard which all research is supposed to strive for - is "repeatability." |
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| 08/02/2005 - Prescription Painkiller Scandal |
| I know I've talked a lot about the Cox-2 inhibitors (Vioxx and company) prescription painkiller scandal in the last 10 months, but what can I say? |
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| 08/01/2005 - The peanut's back in the spotlight |
| I'm writing today because I'm happy to report that finally, the peanut's back in the spotlight! According to a recent AP article, consumption of peanuts and peanut butter has jumped in recent years, perhaps signaling an end … |
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