The FDA Is Doing Its Job. Part 1
The recent withdrawal of Warner-Lambert’s diabetes drug Rezulin has provoked the predictable outcry from consumer groups: Food and Drug Administration laxity and haste permits unsafe drugs into the marketplace.
December 9th, 2011 - Posted in Health Care | | Comments Off
The Margins of Classical Homoeopathy, Part 1
Ranitidine has skin rash as a minor side-effect, but other than that her allopathic treatment did not seem likely to be causing her presenting problem. Both Ranitidine and Amlodipine, however, could have been causing some of her other symptoms (e.g., headache, flushing, nausea, and dizziness). Her intake of nutritional and vitamin complements – she was taking 1000 mg per day of Vitamin C and the lecithin – was not producing any noticeable effect on her skin problem. Consequently, I advised her to discontinue all her proprietary medication, but to continue with the allopathic prescriptions. Her allopathic practitioner was aware that I was treating her and had no objection provided she remained on Amlodipine. She was allergic to milk and milk products. (more…)
December 2nd, 2011 - Posted in Medicines | | Comments Off
Treatments for Hair Loss
Medication
Drugs can work in some women when the hair is thin but has not disappeared entirely. (more…)
November 28th, 2011 - Posted in Hair loss | | Comments Off
Paget’s Carcinoma
Q.A family member was recently diagnosed with Paget’s carcinoma of the breast. It was found in the nipple. It started with a dry scab on the nipple in 1994 and never showed up on sonogram or mammogram. (more…)
November 25th, 2011 - Posted in Women's Health | | Comments Off
Drug Interactions
There are no known drug interactions. However, formal drug interaction studies have not been performed.
Many patients use feverfew for prevention and then use standard pharmaceutical treatment for breakthrough migraines. However, there is no scientific evidence regarding the appropriate approach (if any) to such combinations. (more…)
November 17th, 2011 - Posted in Medicines | | Comments Off
Massage Therapy For People Living With Cancer
In the year 2001 alone, the American Cancer Society estimated that 1,268,000 people in the United States lost their battle with cancer. Cancer has touched many lives, and will continue to do so. Cancer does not discriminate. Cancer attacks our husbands, our wives, our mothers, our fathers, our daughters, our sons, our sisters, our brothers, and our friends.
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November 14th, 2011 - Posted in Alternative Medicine | | Comments Off
Should I go for Different Medication?
Q.For the past forty years I have been an epileptic, taking 60mg of phenobarbitol twice daily. It has been controlled these past few weeks, but now I am experiencing signs of a seizure. Should I go for different medication? (more…)
November 9th, 2011 - Posted in Uncategorized | | Comments Off
Mindi O’Brien’s “2010 Fitness Olympia”
PREVIOUS WEEK’S REFLECTION: I hope everyone in Canada had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We went to my mom’s house in St. Catharines for Thanksgiving. It was so nice to go home and spend some time with my sister and my mom. (more…)
November 2nd, 2011 - Posted in Fitness | | Comments Off
Flooding rinks and rebuilding kernels — for fun and the common good? Part 2
Just as I help out with the ice.
Does this make them un-American commie-pinko-revolutionaries, folks who would make Archie Bunker bite off the end of his cigar? Not at all.
October 28th, 2011 - Posted in Communication | | Comments Off
Flooding rinks and rebuilding kernels — for fun and the common good? Part 1
This winter I volunteered to join the neighbourhood rink duty. We got a great deal — the city set up an outdoor rink, put in place a shed with a firehose, and left the issue of ice quality up to us.
October 28th, 2011 - Posted in Communication | | Comments Off
