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Flu Vaccine: Better Ones Coming: But Get Vaccinated

Flu vaccines will be made faster, and more specific in the future. The new approved Flublock will also have less “preservatives” than the current vaccine. Vaccination is still far superior to supplements, vitamins, tam-flu, or any other “product” out there.

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Coke and Obesity- What the Body Does with The Calories

Coca-cola is joining in the fight against obesity. While the company has done some great things around the world, this fight is disingenuous at best. The marketing of free-fructose in large quantities is responsible for a great deal of the obesity epidemic in this, and other countries.

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24 Hour Flu Does Not Exist: Its Food Poisoning

You don’t have the 24 hour flu – you have been poisoned by food. Here is how to protect yourself – and by the way, cooking something to death is not the way to do it – pink is ok.

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Guns and Violence: A Surgeon Speaks Out

There is an epidemic of gun violence against children in the United States. Children are killed by guns at the equivalent of two Newton shootings a week. I couldn’t take kids dying in my ER from this- and I am hoping all sides will come together and help end this senseless violence.

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Medical Device Tax: Obama-Care – What Is It

The medical device tax has been misrepresented as something that would cost American jobs – and some bloggers have cited companies. In fact, it won’t cost jobs. Here are some of those companies and why they are losing jobs- nothing to do with Obama-care. This is an excise tax, which is like many other excise taxes that are used in this country.

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Obama-Care: Adding People to Insurance Costs Us Less

The myth that increasing the number of people with insurance will add to healthcare costs has been disproven by the award winning care given by SouthCentral Foundation.

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Physician Shortage in the U.S.: Increasing Wait Times

The shortage of American doctors has arrived, and it is becoming critical. There are more physicians who are retiring than we are training, and fewer people are entering medical school as a profession.

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BPA and Obesity

A recent report linked BPA to obesity in children. BPA is a chemical used to make plastics and resins, and is found in most prepared foods. BPA also is known to have weak estrogen-like activity, and is stored in fatty tissues- leading to the ban of BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. BPA has also been linked to several cancers. We will show you how to avoid BPA

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Acupuncture: It Still Doesn’t Work

In spite of a recent study about acupuncture, it does not overcome the bias of the person performing the acupuncture, or the placebo effect. Acupuncture is attempting to find a place in chronic pain, where treatments don’t work well- but cannot find a place in acute pain- such as that caused by an acute injury.

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