This is what happens when politics and media sensationlism mixes with public health. At least Obama is responding with good use of our military in Africa for containment. SARS did not spark the...
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This is what happens when politics and media sensationlism mixes with public health. At least Obama is responding with good use of our military in Africa for containment. SARS did not spark the...
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ebola-crisis-liberia-doctor-treats-patients-hiv-drugs-most-survive-1467487
Makes sense, Ebola is Rna virus afterall. The Zmapp we used here at Emory Universitty on the...
If we left Sadaam in place ( bush Sr and Reagan supported him) his secular Bath party was brutal and pragmatic enough not to let such radical elements take over. ISIS is rooted in the Iraq conflict...
According to Stratfor endless occupation of Afganistan is not going to work. Russia couldn't do it, why are we, who are less ruthless, going to accomplish anything in this mountainous, tribal...
https://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/2014/07/15/alzheimers-rate-falling-united-states/12707053/
Pretty sure it is due to the decline of vascular dementia ( not Alzheimer's) as we improve...
Both my parents were in Air America during the Vietnam war ( my mom as a Taiwanese operative since she spoke and looked Vietnmese). The women pilots then were amazing, flying into territory that...
ISIS has captured our imagination because of their televised cruelty but we would be stupid to forget Al Qaeda who is still very much the smarter and more dangerous player. The former is founded by a...
"ISIS has a new enemy to fear in its desert rampage of horror and destruction it’s waging across the Middle East: a woman who is fighting back. Not just any woman, fighter pilot Maj. Mariam Al...
https://www.ijreview.com/2014/09/181199-female-fighter-pilot-becomes-first-say-hey-isis-bombed-woman-nice-day/
Just wish it was an AMerican female pilot, but I will take a United Arab Emerit woman...
https://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/study-links-anxiety-drugs-to-alzheimers-disease/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
This is why I hate benzos in elderly. (Besides increased fall risk and...
I have two properties. One is in a subdivision and one is on 10 acres where my husband grows all our vegetables. ( he grew up on a farm) so I know our vegetables are organic. He cans them for the...
Notice that these airstrikes on Islamic State and al Qaeda positions in Syria on Sept 22 was not with the help and backing of traditional allies such as France or the United Kingdom, but rather ,...
Obamacare did nothing to increase the amount of primary care physicians to take on the new load of those with insurance. It did increase by 10% pay for those of us in Internal Medicine, General...
FOr the record, Australia has medicare....medicare for all, don't hear doctors trying to flee the country to live here.
With single payer and privatized secondary like in Australia, no employer has to have providing health insurance as their second highest overhead, no citizen is denied health insurance, we streamline...
I can't tell you how many military members don't realize my taxes ( and I am in the highest tax bracket) pays for their Tricare. Cognitive dissonance at it's peak.
Tell me how my brother rides o the backs of taxpayer..
For the record, my brother make $ 550 grand a year. He is Bipolar I . His Aetna through his company does not provide mental health coverage...
Not true. I run a private practice, I don't take medicare so I can accept federal grants. Like I said, Medicare pays me 38% less than my private plans but they pay me in 2 weeks. I make out more...
If you notice, all the patients are cancer patients, so the grandfathered plans are taking advantage of obamacare to discharge their patients and switch them to higher premium plans ( without telling...
Obama is a secret republican. He contiinued the policies of BUsh in the middle east, drone attacks etc. He never repealed the patriot act which violates our 4th amendment.
Democrats wanted the...
In other words, if you have a plan that existed before march 23rd, 2010 from your employer or individual policy they can still cancel your plan because you got too sick, it's called Rescission, and...
ALso, he can get tax subsidies to pay the premiums for any on the healthcare exchange plan since none of those can rescind or penalize him for having cancer. I believe he would qualilfy as it sounds...
Calling bullshit on this one. If he had his plan before 2010, any insurance plan in existance before then and their policies do not have to comply with Obamacare. ( Bet everyone forgets that.)....
It's still not socialized medicine. Only three of which exist, Spain, Britain and the VA system in this country. The government does not tell me how I must run my practice. I can fire all medicare...
No, its not. In socialized medicine doctors like myself don't own our practices, we work for the government on a fixed salary. I take Medicare, I will take 3/5 insurances on the Georgia exchange, and...
Here is the full article
Th ACA is not a left-wing socialist program. It is built on a flawed conservative Heritage Foundation proposal that was the basis for Romneycare in Massachusetts.
The ACA simply expands the...
Not necessarily a sighn of sleep apnea, PTSD, chronic anxiety, situational stress, hypnogogic hallucinations, withdrawel from certain medications etc.
Many can't wear the CPAP /BPAP due to claustrophobia and have anatomies not responsive to uvuloplasty ( the latter many times fail after a few years anyway and the person has to go back on CPAP). It...
October 17, 2013
Cinnamon Improves Menstrual Cyclicity in PCOS
ASRM: Cinnamon Improves Menstrual Cyclicity in PCOS (HealthDay News) – Cinnamon supplementation improves menstrual cyclicity and...
States that decided to build and run their health exchange sites are going smoothly and well. The states that gave up that control ( knowing states are more nimble and more efficient than the bloated...
Love this part, it's what I tell my undergraduate students that I advise, they are not competing against themselves, they are competing against hungrier, smart students from these other countries who...
Autism May Be Linked to Placenta Abnormalities
Interesting, now I'lll have to tell my patients to lay off the carnitine...
IIt's cheaper getting an abortion than carrying a baby to term. It's also a legal medical procedure. It's a win win for insurance companies.
FactCheck.org : The Truth About Health Insurance Premiums
My premiums will also be going down as well since the Obamacare got rid of “gender rating,” where insurers currently charge women higher premiums than men for identical health benefits. As of...
My premiums went up 300% as a partner over ten years before Obama was elected. These insurance companies are just punting the blame. The SOBs were raping us employers long before Obama care. (I've...
Planned parenthood also do pap smears for my uninsured patients so they can continue to have access to birth control pills. No doctor will write a prescription for birth control pills unless the...
Trust me, I respect pro-life sentiments now that I have had a child, but even after having a baby, I still support abortion for reasons that are too intangible to be argued on the basis of morality...
"Most abortions (88%) are obtained in the first trimester of pregnancy. In fact, over half of all abortions are obtained within the first 8 weeks. Fewer than 2% occur at 21 weeks or later"
National Abortion Federation: Women Who Have Abortions
myths and realities. The number one myth we need to dispel is that half of all women getting abortions were on contraception or using...
msot states do not allow abortion after the 1s trimester unless there is a danger to the woman's life.
when i meant social evolution it is no different than man escaping earthly calamaties by cutting down trees to build a house and a fire, from starvation by mastering beast and plow, and escaping the...
I refer patients to abortion clinics all the time. None of us want 3rd trimester abortions. That is vile. My twin sister got pregnant in sophmore year in college even on birth control pills. She...
1. Fetal heart beats can be dectected at five weeks, Many PCO women with irregular periods won't even know they are pregnant yet.
2. Show me a society where women are not allowed abortions and...
HIGH GLYCEMIC INDEX FOODS AND DAIRY PROFOUNDLY AFFECTS ACNE AS WELL. AND , THERE IS A PROTECTIVE EFFECT WITH FISH.
High glycemic index foods and dairy products linked to acne
WHEN I was doing neurophysiology research, we would compare PET scans of normal brains, Alzheimers and ADHD. The normal brain had red, blue, yellow lights and so did the Alzheimers except it was a...
NOT HERE AT EMORY. NO DRUG REPS ALLOWED. NO SAMPLES TO BE TAKEN. WE HAVE A STRICT POLICY.