Kids Medicine: Go Metric Save A Life
The use of the kitchen spoon to measure children’s medication is responsible for poisoning our kids. Grow up America, use milliliters – a precise measurement, when dosing your child.
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Bioterrorism Lab Closed
The latest CDC closing of the bioterrorism laboratories is a necessary step to build protocols for continued safe handling of biologics. But it gives us pause to consider that there are more dangerous diseases out there- and chances are they are coming into our country on a commercial airline.
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Tainted Weight Loss Supplements: FDA Warning
The FDA issued warnings about six popular weight loss supplements that contain medications that have been pulled from the market. In the last three years the FDA has issued over 100 warnings on weight loss supplements that contain dangerous medications.
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Smallpox Found: Bioterrorism Concerns
The finding of live virus, apparently left behind in an old laboratory freezer brings an old viral enemy back into our consciousness.
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Binge Drinking: Alcohol, Trauma, & Early Deaths
Terry Simpson MD discusses the recent CDC report that 1 in 10 deaths in the United States is caused by binge drinking. We lose over ten times as many people per year from alcohol as we did in ten years of the war in Iraq. This happens when men drink more than five drinks at a time – and the toll isn’t just in car accidents, but in their health.
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Killing an Infant: Pertussis The Epidemic That Shouldn’t Happen
Dr. Terry Simpson discusses how the anti-vaccination group are responsible for infant deaths from Pertussis. Pertussis kills newborn children, not from a cough, but from heart failure. The vaccine is only good for ten years. Save an infant’s life: get your vaccines updated. Please – you don’t want to kill a child.
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Eating Organic Food Does Not Decrease Incidence of Cancer
Organic foods offer no benefit to prevent cancer, in fact there is a small rise in breast cancer among those women who reported eating organic foods.
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Toxoplasmosis – Your Cat Could Fork U
A serious, but preventable food-borne illness that can cause damage to the unborn child, and immunocompromised individuals. Yet, can be easily treated and simply prevented.
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Platelet-Rich Plasma: Save Your Money
Platelet Rich Plasma is a technique where an injection of the patient’s own blood is concentrated with the “healing factors” – but does it work? There is no good study saying it works. Athletes like Tiger Woods and others have tried it. But with years of use, there is no randomized, double blind study that shows efficacy.
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