retired doc's thoughts

A recent article from Japan by Sato et al reported an impressive 80% reduction in hip fractures in a two year trial with B 12 and folic aci...

For the past week, I have been off line thanks to a cable cut incident with SBC and then Rita storming into east Texas. There is a lot to ca...

Recently the ADA issued a position statement challenging the validity of the concept of metabolic syndrome. Their statement can be found h...

The September 2005 of AJM features an article (Internal medicine residency training in the 21st century: Aligning requirements with professi...

A section in the Tulane Medical student web site for comments for the now Katrina displaced(to be largely relocated in Houston) students ha...

UnitedHealthCare representatives have met with the Texas Medical Association's (TMA) leaders to introduce their program designated as Pr...

The Sept. 6 issue of the Annals Internal Medicine reviews an earlier Lancet article ( Bjelakovic, G et al-Lancet 2004:364;1219-1228) which n...

Recently, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) issued a statement casting doubt on the validity and usefulness of the concept of metabo...

Fox News interviewed a nurse at New Orleans Charity Hospital last night. She and her fellow nurses and the physicians had been fighting agai...

In what will be to many a surprising comment,The American Diabetes Association issued a statement challenging the value of the metabolic syn...

Medscape has an article explaining new warnings issued by the FDA on Requip.RebelDoctor Weblog had commented on my earlier blog indicating t...

A recent article in Lancet appropriately criticizes homeopathy and concludes there is no scientific basis for it and it does not work. This...

This sounds a lot like my recent posting on bipo*r disease and allegation of physician underdiagnosis and it should since it is another exam...

Delegates at the Canadian Medical Association 's recent meeting voted to not reject the alternative of private care in Canada if waitin...

The August 16, 2005 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine published an article by Dr. David M. E. Eddy et al using a mathematical model ...

A recent study published in the Archives of Dermatology investigated the use of the CAGE- alcohol abuse screening too, somewhat modified- ...

Several months ago at a local internist's club meeting we had a presentation by a psychiatrist about bipolar disorder. He is a co-direct...

A disconcerting article appeared in the August 2005 issue of the American Journal Of Medicine. 87 internal medicine residents and 33 emerge...

That single disease guidelines may be harmful in multi-disease patients is a topic I have talked about before . Dr. Mary Tinetti published a...

The war on drugs continues.New theaters of operation are always opening up even though the enemy in older venues of combat have not been def...