Medicine

As technology improves, so do the materials we use. However, sometimes the materials we think are amazing aren't actually amazing in practice. CFCs were used as cooling agents in refrigerating units for years, until we discovered that they were destroying our ozone layer. Asbestos was a great insulator... until we discovered it caused lung cancer.  Read More »

Where do I envision the naturopathic medicine profession heading in the future? More practice, more schools, more licensure, more accreditation, more physicians, more patients, more consistent progress. This profession is constantly advancing. More locations are offering licensure for naturopathic doctors, most recently Minnesota on May 23, 2008.  Read More »

Clinical trials are mandated for each and every drug that hits the US market. These drugs undergo a great deal of testing.  Read More »

Okay so as I wrote yesterday, I was looking for ideas and approvals on writing topics. So the one that I ask for approval was the number of mothers that die while giving births. I recently read an article in Time magazine about this, that one in 8 have a chance of dying in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, as opposed to the US where 1 in 4,800.

In the UK 1 in 8,200.

And in Sweden 17,400.  Read More »

Will the fate of the American health care industry become the same as those of England, Canada, or many other countries world wide? Would socializing the health care industry really be the magical solution to the problems that it now faces? The answer is clear and simple. No. So why is this the answer? Let's find out...  Read More »

This is a rewrite, because I realized that my last attempt at this topic did not come off exactly the way I wanted it to. That was my own fault, and after thinking about it for the last couple days, I decided to just rework the entire entry to see if I could come out better. I apologize in advance to those who commented on my original entry.  Read More »

What would you do if your doctor told you that there was nothing that you could do for your child except for "love him, take good care of him and go home?" Would you be able to watch your child suffer through life just because something went wrong in his development? Just because some mutation happened in his genetic code that can not be reversed with modern technology?  Read More »

We all know the story of antibiotics.

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 and there was much rejoicing.

Well, actually the rejoicing comes a little bit later, because Alexander Fleming didn't actually do anything.  Read More »