January 14, 2014 Full Story Shoulder replacement surgery improved range of motion and reduced pain in nearly all cases of rheumatoid arthritis, especially when patients had an intact rotator cuff, based on study results recently published in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. Using the data in the Mayo Clinic Total Joint Registry, researchers studied […]
Bret Stetka, MD; Robyn Lucas, PhD, BSc, MBChB, MPH&TM, MHE January 13, 2014 Video Click Here Hello. I’m Bret Stetka, Editorial Director at Medscape. Welcome to the F1000 Practice-Changing Minute, during which we report commentaries from the Faculty of 1000 on highly rated studies that may change clinical practice. Today’s commentary covers the study “Effects […]
by mindbodygreen December 20, 2013 4:00 AM If you’re as big a fan of Dr. Frank Lipman as we are, you’ll love the TEDx talk in which he traces his journey to functional medicine. From his years in South Africa under apartheid, to his residency in the Bronx, where he first discovered the power of […]
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The topic is concussions and the new evidence-based guidelines on its evaluation and management, from the American Academy of Neurology and published in the journal Neurology.
11/27/2013 by Mark Hyman, MD If you’re feeling completely confused about whether you should cut fat from your diet, you are not alone. But here’s the bottom line: fat does not make you fat or sick. So, why do so many people believe that fat is bad for you and causes heart attacks? This all […]
Does high cholesterol really increase your risk of heart attacks? Is the role of cholesterol in heart disease really one of the biggest myths in the history of medicine? For the last four decades we’ve been told that saturated fat clogs our arteries and high cholesterol causes heart disease. It has spawned a multi-billion dollar […]
Published on Nov 22, 2013 In this installment of the YOUR GOVERNMENT series, Virtual President Bill Whittle explains why a two-cent aspirin pill costs $20, and how we can replace the waste and inefficiencies of our present system with one that empowers patients to use their own money, just as if it were… their own […]
by Mark Hyman, MD Last Updated November 27, 2013 Full Story If you’re feeling completely confused about whether you should cut fat from your diet, you are not alone. But here’s the bottom line: fat does not make you fat or sick. So, why do so many people believe that fat is bad for you […]
MICHAEL R EADES, MD. Is cholesterol the villain it is made out to be by the medical authorities? Does too much cholesterol cause heart disease? Will it shorten your life? Should you avoid saturated fats to stay free from heart disease? The answers to these questions are not the ones most people would anticipate. The […]
Paul A. Offit, MD October 22, 2013 Full Story: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/812751 Hi. My name is Paul Offit, and I am talking to you today from the Vaccine Education Center here at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Today we are not going to be talking about vaccines. We are going to be talking about dietary supplements. On […]
Our current government guidelines recommend drinking three glasses of milk a day for every American over five. For kids under five, Uncle Sam recommends chugging two glasses a day. But is milk a health food? Should we really be eating dairy? Is there any real science behind this, or is this just the result of the powerful Dairy Council lobby?
By ANAHAD O’CONNOR Published: November 3, 2013 The New York Times Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements-are-often-not-what-they-seem.html Americans spend an estimated $5 billion a year on unproven herbal supplements that promise everything from fighting off colds to curbing hot flashes and boosting memory. But now there is a new reason for supplement buyers to beware: DNA tests show […]
Jonathan Kay, MD Full Story & Video: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/803289 Hello. I am Jonathan Kay, Professor of Medicine and Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center, both in Worcester, Massachusetts. In the 1931 musical Scandals, Ethel Merman sang a song that began, “Life is […]
Published on Sep 26, 2013 The wheat of today is not the wheat of our mothers or grandmothers. Modern wheat is the product of genetics manipulations that have transformed its properties. Modern wheat is now a 2-foot tall, high-yield semi-dwarf strain, different in both appearance and multiple biochemical features from traditional wheat. Introduction of this […]
Video: TED Talk; Russell Foster: Why do we sleep? Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for something we do with one-third of our lives. In this talk, Foster shares three popular theories […]