Vertigo means dizziness—actually a specific … kind of dizziness where you think the room is spinning or moving, as opposed to feeling unsteady on your feet with reasonably stable surroundings. Any child who has experimented with spinning around like a top knows...
Of all the diseases I commonly see in primary care … none is more likely to be improperly treated than bronchitis. What is bronchitis and why do physicians and patients often approach this disease incorrectly? Bronchitis is divided into two versions. Acute...
The entire world spends about $1.4 trillion every … year on research and development in all branches of science and among all industries. Drug companies and medical device manufacturers account for 10% of the total at around $150 billion dollars. The big...
In 1971 when Richard Nixon launched our nation … into a war on cancer, little did we realize that this war would have significant collateral damage. Although we have made progress against certain types of tumors, the part of the battle that involves wide-spread...
Americans spend $14 billion … each year on vitamins and supplements. Do these chemicals provide health benefits to us, or is the entire thing mostly a scam? The answer is that it is mostly a scam. With few exceptions, the best science demonstrates that virtually...
Imagine that every pipe in your house started leaking… Not too good for the house. A similar process is what kills the victims of Ebola virus. Ebola is one member of a family of incredibly nasty viruses called viral hemorrhagic fevers, which includes hantavirus...
