| 10/29/2004 - Is Big Brother behind YOU? |
| A few years ago, I wrote about the subversive practice of modern pediatricians asking probing questions of their child patients about the presence of firearms in the house where they live... |
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| 10/26/2004 - Hypertension contention |
| Last August (Daily Dose, 8/8/2003), I wrote an article lambasting the American Medical Association for lowering its guidelines for healthy blood pressure for the umpteenth time. |
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| 10/25/2004 - Fat Lib? |
| By definition, activists are people of extreme viewpoints (ironically, this is what most activists say about everyone else). And I take pride in having ruffled the feathers of a great many of them in this very venue, and in my newsletter. |
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| 10/22/2004 - Abra-cadavers! |
| Ever since just after the Middle Ages, when cutting open the human body after death was forbidden, the standard method of educating doctors — and what passed for them in the old days — in basic anatomy has been the dissection of cadavers. |
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| 10/19/2004 - Twilight for the Twinkie |
| I wish I could say I'm going to shed a tear for the demise of the hostess Twinkie, but alas, I cannot muster one. Nor can I turn on the waterworks for Wonder Bread and those modern junk-food classics, the Ho-Ho and the Ding Dong. |
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| 10/18/2004 - Commerce or coercion? |
| I've been railing for a long time about how drug marketing causes an increase in the diagnosis of illness. |
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| 10/15/2004 - The silent treatment, part two |
| It's no secret I've been on an anti-antidepressant kick for years now. If you've been with me for any amount of time at all, you know I think that "depression" is one the most over-diagnosed diseases in modern America. |
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| 10/12/2004 - Pulling the wool |
| Just last week, I told you about Merck & Co.'s "voluntary" yanking of the blockbuster arthritis drug Vioxx from pharmacy shelves |
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| 10/11/2004 - A killer painkiller? |
| Finally, some encouraging news on the drug front: Starting now, there will be ONE LESS OF THEM being peddled by prescription to sicken you or send you to the morgue. |
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| 10/08/2004 - The cancer crapshoot |
| It's been a year or so since I railed against the worthless Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) screening for the detection of prostate cancer... |
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| 10/05/2004 - Cancer-causing carbohydrates |
| Cancer study reveals: Avoid "carb-cinogens" |
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| 10/04/2004 - Stepford Surgery |
| There's a disturbing trend nowadays in cosmetic surgery (not that this kind of surgery itself isn't a disturbing trend): Everyone wants to LOOK THE SAME. |
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