With the opioid crisis looming on the horizon always, the question comes as to how to treat pain.  So many medicines have side effects an are overall dangerous.  Some work about as much as placebo.  We'll talk about medicines, bu...

We have always known about basic cancer screening tests, like mammography and colonoscopy.  But we have expanded the universe of cancer screening, relying on scans, blood tests, and genetic testing.  As we screen more, we find more, w...

Many books and studies have pointed to the fact that we are a nation swimming in mental health diagnoses and drugs.  The DSM--the bible of mental health diagnoses--has exploded the numbers of mental health sicknesses you may have, and for ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) has devised new blood pressure guidelines.  In this iteration, the AHA tell us that any blood pressure over 120 is dangerous and must be treated, with pressures over 180 requiring immediate hospitalizat...

New studies show that as we are drugging our senior more, they are falling more and dying more from their falls.  We may think that dramatically lowering blood pressure and sugars, fixing cholesterol with statins, using blood thinners to p...