Dr. Randy Wysong
Are Drug Companies Destroying The U.S. Health Care System?
The U.S. government's annual bill for healthcare spending $3,925 per person significantly exceeds that of all other nations. Despite this, our current health care system is increasingly failing both patients and medical...
Date Posted: August 03, 2005
Medical Testing: Health By The Numbers Doesn't Work
Perhaps one of the most insidious dangers in modern technology is medical testing. Although it would be nice to be able to visit our doctor and get all hooked up with electrodes, inflatable cuffs, probes, needles and catheters and have a read-out...
Date Posted: August 03, 2005
The Case AGAINST Raw Frozen Pet Foods
For some 25 years I have alerted the public to the dangers of exclusively feeding heat processed foods. Companion animal feeding has progressed actually digressed from table scraps and real foods the family could spare to todays...
Date Posted: August 03, 2005
Anabolic Hormones - A Two-Edged Sword
When I was a young boy, emerging muscles were the coolest thing. If a vein popped out a little, that was even more awesome. There were no fitness centers or body building gyms to amount to anything back then (Stone Age).
Date Posted: August 03, 2005
Health And The Economy
We normally do not think that health is related to economics other than with regard to the costs of medical care. But there is another more fundamental way money impacts our wellbeing.
Date Posted: August 03, 2005
Is Vitamin E Lethal?
Recently the news carried the story that a researcher had discovered that taking vitamin E at a level of 400IU or more increases the risk of death. (Jan 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine http://www.annals.org/content/vol142/issue1/) I was...
Date Posted: August 03, 2005
X-Rays What You Don't See & Feel Can Hurt You
There is little doubt that x-ray technology (x-rays, CT scans, fluoroscopy) in medicine has done much good and is an invaluable diagnostic tool. Although I seriously question its usefulness as a therapeutic tool (e.g.
Date Posted: August 03, 2005
Cancer - The Missing Point
If one were to judge by television advertising and news reports, it would seem that the war on cancer is all but won. What are the weapons being heralded?
Date Posted: August 03, 2005
Growing Good People
At age seven months in the womb, humans begin language coordination in response to what they hear through the mothers belly wall. Some 52 muscles learn to respond to the various phonemes (a basic language sound like 'b' in boy and...
Date Posted: August 03, 2005
Why Child Bearing Is Healthy
From a purely biological perspective, bearing children can be considered the most important reason for a womans existence. For that matter, the same could be said about men, since both sexes are, in effect, disposable packages of genetic...
Date Posted: August 03, 2005