The COVID-19 pandemic has brought issues of healthcare equity to the forefront of discussions of racial justice. Even when controlling for factors like age and income, communities of color have been much more severely impacted that white Americans. A recent report by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that “older Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native adults were Read More…
Big Pharma giant Johnson & Johnson admitted bribing European doctors and agreed to pay $70 million in civil and criminal court, according to a recent article in The New York Times. The bribes were so egregious that one copy of an internal company 3-mail stated that providing cash incentives to surgeons is common knowledge in Read More…
Aging humans with indications of the metabolic syndrome, which include high blood pressure, increased fat around the waist, and other risk factors may be more susceptible to succumbing to memory loss, according to a recent study published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of he American Academy of Neurology. Metabolic syndrome is Read More…
Honest Medicine is all most people really want from the medical field. What works? What doesn’t work? Those are the main questions people want answered. Unfortunately, with Big Pharma money lining the pockets of the FDA with one hand and cutting doctors checks behind the backs of regulators with the other, very few doctors are Read More…
A new study suggests that among people who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), taking a high-dose supplement of vitamin D may increase their exercise capacity and strength of respiratory muscles. The findings, which were presented at the recent American Thoracic Society conference in Denver, show that a monthly dose of 100,000 IU (international units) Read More…
FRITO-LAY is subsidiary of PEPSICO, INC., makers of Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay sells $12 Billion a year of products that include: Lays Potato Chips Doritos Tostitos Cheetos Fritos You might not associate these mostly fried snack foods as being good for you, but the FDA has no problem allowing the Frito-Lay website to state the following: “Frito-Lay Read More…
