February 2009

The failure of U.S. healthcare

By on February 28, 2009 in Medical Industrial Complex, Myths & Truths | 7 comments

The U.S. spent 16 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - a cool $2 trillion - on health care in 2005.[1. Park, A. America's Health Check Up. 11/20/2008. Time Magazine Online.] Considering this enormous expenditure, we should have the best medicine in the world. We should be reversing disease, preventing disease, and doing minimal harm. However, careful and objective review shows the opposite. The U.S. ranks just 34th in the world in life ...
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Cholesterol-lowering drugs reduce brain function

By on February 25, 2009 in Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease | 4 comments

Research by an Iowa State University scientist due to be published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that cholesterol-lowering drugs (statins) may lessen brain function. The results of the study show that drugs that inhibit the liver from making cholesterol may also keep the brain from making cholesterol, which is vital to efficient brain function. "If you deprive cholesterol from the brain, then you directly affect the machinery that triggers the ...
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Technical difficulties!

By on February 13, 2009 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

I had some serious technical difficulties this morning with the blog. As a result, I had to re-insall all of my WordPress plugins. I'm pretty sure things are back to normal, but if you notice anything out-of-whack please do let me know.
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