David Hockney
“It’s difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more […]
May 2007
Medications Side Effects: Balancing the Rocking Boat
Given this general background, the “witch hunt” of the day would seem to be sleeping medications: Ambien CR, Lunesta, Rozerem and a dozen of others. The ABC network published several […]
Medicalizing Overweight/Obesity
In many instances these eleven medications may actually be prescribed for their FDA approved use while, at the same time, taking advantage of their anorexiant effect to help patients lose […]
Hypothyroidism, on evidence based management approach to overweight
Every one knows about epidemics of diabetes caused by the impairment in metabolism of insulin, female hormones imbalance causing infamous PMS and peri-menopausal problems, but not too many of us […]
FDA says pills can cause ‘sleep-driving’
It’s a more complicated version of sleepwalking, but behind the wheel: getting up in the middle of the night and going for a drive — with no memory of doing […]
Chest presses, not breaths, help CPR
A recent study in Japan showed that people were more likely to recover without brain damage if rescuers focused on chest compressions rather than rescue breaths, and some experts advised […]