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Documentary: Fast Food, Fat Profits: Obesity in America 24 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
By Dr. Mercola “Fast Food, Fat Profits” gives a quick overview of what’s wrong with the US food industry, and how its inherent design virtually guarantees a sick, overweight population. From food dese...
More Unintended Consequences Of Digital Data: How An EMR Gave My Patient Syphilis 22 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
I used to be a big believer in the transformative power of digital data in medicine. In fact, I devoted the past decade of my life to assisting the “movement” towards better record keeping and shared ...
Lack Of Information Synthesis: One Of The Most Important Causes Of Medical Errors 15 Aug 2013 | 07:43 pm
As I travel around the country, working in the trenches of various hospitals, I’ve been struck by the number of errors made by physicians and nurses whose administrative burden distracts them from pat...
5 Tips for Recovering from Emotional Pain 15 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
By Dr. Mercola Emotional pain often exacts a greater toll on your quality of life than physical pain. The stress and negative emotions associated with any trying event can even lead to physical pain a...
The Witch Hunt of Jenny McCarthy for Talking About Vaccines 6 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
By Barbara Loe Fisher Now that it looks like ABC-TV executives are backing Barbara Walters’ hire of celebrity Jenny McCarthy to join the popular daytime talk show “The View”,1 the blood that spilled o...
Dr. Val, The Traveling Physician: Living La Vida Locums 4 Aug 2013 | 11:46 pm
It’s been a couple of months since my last post because I’ve been traveling around the United States working as a locum tenens (in Latin, “place holder” – a more elegant name than “temp”) physician. W...
Discover the Benefits of K-Laser Class 4 Laser Therapy Treatments 28 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
By Dr. Mercola Laser therapy is still a fairly unknown 21st century treatment modality that can have profound benefits for pain management and tissue healing. Dr. Phil Harrington was a high school phy...
Brain Imaging Study Confirms Addictive Nature of Processed Carbs 18 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
By Dr. Mercola A staggering two-thirds of Americans are now overweight, and one in four are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. Carb-rich processed foods are a primary driver of these statistics, and whi...
10 American Foods That Are Banned in Other Countries 10 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
By Dr. Mercola Americans are slowly waking up to the sad fact that much of the food sold in the US is far inferior to the same foods sold in other nations. In fact, many of the foods you eat are BANNE...
So Which Toilet Paper Really Is the Best? 1 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
By Dr. Mercola If you’ve bought toilet paper recently, you know that there are more than a handful of brands to choose from, but how different can two rolls of toilet paper really be? Quite different,...
