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May 6, 2011

Alternative Medicine and Children – Part 4 – Herbs and Herbalism

So far in this series on alternative medicine and children, I have been concerned with the chemical aspects of herbal remedies. In this blog, I’d like […]

May 6, 2011

The “Purple Pill” (PPIs) could cause serious long-term adverse effects

The Boston Globe reports, “The Food and Drug Administration’s advisory said patients who take” proton pump inhibitors” (PPIs) for a long time, generally more than one year, may […]

May 4, 2011

Alternative Medicine and Children – Part 3 – Herbs for Children and the Risks

As pediatric surgeons were performing surgery on children in the 1990s, some noticed an increase in bleeding problems. They could not explain their observations until researcher, […]

May 4, 2011

The Christian divorce rate myth (what you’ve heard is wrong)

It’s been proclaimed from pulpits and blogs for years — Christians divorce as much as everyone else in America. But some scholars and family activists are questioning […]

May 3, 2011

Social media has good and bad effects on kids

In a couple of past blogs, I ‘ve written about the negative effect of social media such as Facebook (Kids’ use of electronic media at night […]

May 2, 2011

Alternative Medicine and Children – Part 2 – Chiropractic for Children

The most common pediatric complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapy requiring a therapist is chiropractic. One estimate claims that the number of children being treated by chiropractors […]

May 2, 2011

Bariatric surgery should be considered as treatment for diabetics with severe obesity

Recently a friend at church, who is obese and has type 2 diabetes, asked if she should consider bariatric surgery. For my friend and the millions […]

February 24, 2010

Osteopathic care may ease late-pregnancy back pain

Low back pain in pregnancy is extremely common and manipulative therapy has been shown in a number of studies to be very helpful — especially for […]

February 24, 2010

Senate report links Avandia to increased risk of heart attacks, death. What am I telling my Avandia patients to do?

In a front-page story, the New York Times reported, “Hundreds of people taking Avandia [rosiglitazone], a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each […]

March 2, 2010

If you think you’re lactose intolerant you may be wrong

Do you think you are lactose intolerant? Think again — at least according to a draft consensus statement a panel of experts at the National Institutes […]

March 2, 2010

Celiac disease seen as being vastly underdiagnosed

Do you have chronic abdominal symptoms that have never been diagnosed? Or, have you self-diagnosed your recurrent abdominal pain as lactose intolerance or irritable bowel syndrome? […]

March 3, 2010

Like happiness, loneliness is contagious

Loneliness, like happiness, can be contagious, says recent research showing how feeling lonely can make others lonely, too. Below are the details from a report in […]