Tom Ferguson, M.D. interviews Joe Graedon, M.A. about his concerns about patient’s lack of information about the drugs they are taking. He outlines what you need to ask the doctor when a drug is prescribed, and what should be in your home medicine...
Traditional Chinese Medicine, other alternative practitioners, and even traditional Western practices have had proven success using auricular acupuncture in the healing of addictions and addictive behaviors. Auricular acupuncture is a specialized...
It's been just a few short months since Avastin (bevacizumab) was being hailed as the great new breakthrough drug for cancer therapy. It's the first drug designed to inhibit angiogenesis, the process by which new blood vessels develop and carry...
At least one in 10 elderly people is prescribed a drug that they shouldn't be taking, and the true picture may easily be twice as bad. Worse, many of the drugs that are being inappropriately prescribed have a high chance of causing a side effect.
Medical trials are extremely expensive things to set up, which is why it's the drug companies who 'sponsor' most research, and then naturally expect to see a positive result. Fair enough, we say, after all, if you pay a mechanic, you expect your car...
No E-news bulletin would be complete without some news about those bad, bad boys, the drug companies. This week we hear that GlaxoSmithKline has been paying doctors to switch patients to a newer, and more profitable, drug. This is common practice...
At least one doctor is less than enthusiastic about the fountain of youth hormone drug test being tested on patients over 60. Newcastle upon Tyne consultant endocrinologist Fredrick Clark is criti ...
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The very young and pregnant women are two groups who should almost never be prescribed general pharmaceuticals. Trials have never been carried out to discover the biochemical effects on such a small and developing body, or on a fetus.
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Tom Ferguson MD
Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
What Doctors Don't Tell You