Stephen L. DeFelice, M.D., Founder and Chairman of FIM, The Foundation for Innovation in Medicine, released a new video criticizing mainstream health care cost projections of Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare, among others, because they omit the discovery of cures. He cites a boom in technology, including gene modification and new organ growth as inevitable in [ Read More ]
To help clarify the confusing media controversies on whether “brain training” actually works, a new book by independent market research company SharpBrains outlines five key conditions required for brain training to work, based on the analysis of hundreds on scientific studies. “Brain training is rapidly becoming an important tool in our brain health and mental [ Read More ]
In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) bacteria in laboratory culture. The finding suggests that vitamin C added to existing TB drugs could shorten TB therapy, and it highlights a new area for drug design. The study was [ Read More ]
National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) CEO B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA issued the following statement regarding a survey by Hart Research Associates regarding Medicare Part D “preferred pharmacy” drug plans, which often exclude independent community pharmacies from offering patients the plan’s lowest advertised co-payments: “Officials with Medicare and MedPAC, 16 U.S. Senators and more than [ Read More ]
When Angelina Jolie told the world about her double mastectomy, she expressed a wish for all women with a family history of breast cancer: “It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options.” [ Read More ]
News reports have been filled with speculation about the reasons for a dramatic nationwide increase in arm lifts, known medically as brachioplasty. We admit it’s interesting to speculate on the reasons for the enormous rise in the operation to remove unattractive baggy skin and tissue from only 300 procedures in the year 2000 to 15,000 [ Read More ]
Dr. R. Anthony Rabbani, Los Angeles eye doctor, is pleased to announce that he offers alternative eye care for his patients in his Toluca Lake practice, Eye Candy Optometry and Eyewear. Dr. Rabbani offers these services to residents of Los Angeles, Toluca Lake, and the surrounding areas. Among the alternative eye care practices that Dr. [ Read More ]
A workshop conducted by HEAL Foundation in the city recently identified a 12 carbon medium chain fatty acid namely Lauric acid which showed superior immune modulating property. Experts revealed that lauric acid gets converted to a biologically active molecule named Monolaurin which effectively kills disease causing bacteria, virus and fungi. Mother’s milk is considered to [ Read More ]
The University of Sydney and ResMed Limited announced a new partnership that includes significant and long-term funding of research at the University, ultimately benefitting the hundreds of millions of sufferers of sleep-disordered breathing worldwide. Under an agreement recently reached between the parties, ResMed Limited will pay $AU25 million to the University to support its work, [ Read More ]
For the first time in more than four decades, an Ontario nurse and mother of six can clearly hear music, voices, laughter and more following a breakthrough surgical procedure for North America involving the world’s first BONEBRIDGE active bone conduction implant system. Kelly Dickson, 51, a patient of London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) in London, [ Read More ]