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 described as the most powerful drug in the world, capable of treating patients with a wide range of problems - and it's completely harmless. It is, of course, the placebo. The placebo is a benign 'sugar pill' that is used in medical...
Medicine prides itself on being a science. It constantly evaluates drugs and therapies by way of expensive trials, and is governed by strict - and expensive - regulatory guidelines. As a result, it has the hearts and minds of governments and the...
There's no love lost between the pharmaceutical companies, regulators suspect. They fear that drug companies may be encouraging doctors to file reports of adverse reactions to a rival drug. The practice has been suspected in Poland where drug...
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* Drugs or devices: birth-control pills; drugs that reduce female hormones; a blood-clotting agent called tranexamic acid; an intrauterine device -
We all know we live in worlds within worlds, and we can usually rely on medicine to exemplify the point. On July 11 the World Health Organization finally included two drugs - mifepristone and misoprostol, which both induce miscarriage - as ones that...
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...
Tom Ferguson MD
Pacific College of Oriental Medicine
What Doctors Don't Tell You