The New DSM5 Diagnostic Manual for Mental Disorders: Creating New Illnesses Dr. Charles Gant has practiced integrative,functional medicine and more recently genomics for over 35 years. He is best known for his work in treating mental and substance use disorders. He received his medical degree from the University of Virginia …
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Is the Flu vaccine effective? With guests Dr. Tom Jefferson, Suzanne Schrock, and Joyce Gingrich. Dr. Tom Jefferson, MD, is a former primary care physician from the UK who is now a leading investigator for Infectious Disease research at the Cochrane Database Group in Rome, Italy. He is the editor …
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Tick bites have long been synonymous with bad news, responsible for transmitting diseases such as Lyme disease, Ehrlichiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but this must be a carnivore or BBQ lover’s worst nightmare. A growing body of research suggests that bites from a particular tick are causing an unusual allergic reaction to …
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On 30 May, Dan Rather, one of America’s best-known journalists, announced that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez would die ”in a couple of months at most”. Four months later Chávez is not only alive and campaigning but widely expected to win re-election on Sunday. Such is the state of misrepresentation of Venezuela – it is probably the …
Think twice the next time you play a videogame or surf the Net: ‘Internet-use disorder’ is set to be added to the list of mental illnesses in the worldwide psychiatric manual. Kids are identified as being especially at risk. The international mental health encyclopedia known as the ‘Diagnostic and Statistical …
Robert L. Klitzman is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University. He co-founded and for five years co-directed the Columbia University Center for Bioethics, and is the Director of the Ethics and Policy Core of the HIV Center. He is the author …
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How has Big Pharma managed to get so many children on expensive drug cocktails for “mental illness”? Drugs that they may not even need? Big Pharma has spent millions on public relations campaigns that tell parents, teachers and clinicians to dose children at the first sign of problems. It knows …
Neuro-nutrition and utilizing the fundamental cellular functions to advance healing from serious illnesses Dr. Yann Rougier is a medical doctor in France who has devoted over 30 years practicing medicine while researching the intersection of mind, body, nutrition, and the immune system, particularly as it applies to cancer and other …
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For the past 30 years or so, a debate about the proper place for competition vs. regulation in our health care system has raged. That debate has now become a central theme in the 2012 presidential race. Democrats favor a regulated system while Republicans favor a more market-driven system, nationally …
Robert L. Klitzman is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program at Columbia University. He co-founded and for five years co-directed the Columbia University Center for Bioethics, and is the Director of the Ethics and Policy Core of the HIV Center. He is the author …
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WASHINGTON – August 24 – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today asked the Inspector General to review the Food and Drug Administration’s handling of an investigation of tainted jerky treats for dogs made in China. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been investigating consumer complaints for five years while the …
In the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green, directed by Richard Fleisher and starring Charlton Heston as Thor, the government combined with industry to euthanize people deemed of low social utility and use their corpses to make a food source called Soylent Green, which was then fed to a starving …
Deborah Hill used to think she was skinny. Her 5 foot 9 inch frame could take on a lot of weight without making her look out of shape. But last year she was shocked to discover that she weighed over 210 pounds, which classified her as medically obese. “It was …