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• Naturopaths take advantage of mammography fears

  
  White Coat Underground — Authority: 527
  A news item this week profiles a northeast naturopath who is using thermal imaging to screen for breast cancers. This is a frightening development. The news about conflicting mammogram recommendations has women wondering what the right approach really is. The question in the new USPSTF recommendations is one of ...
  1 week ago

• Fake medicine to get Ontarios imprimatur

  
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  I live about ten miles due north of "Canadas automotive capital". We often look across the straights to the medical system in Ontario, one in which all citizens have a provincial insurance card. We see how everyone has access to care---or at least some care. Ive treated many Canadian patients who have access to ...
  1 week ago

• Cashless hospitalisation schemes offered by insurance companies comes under the income-tax net

  
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  Cashless hospitalisation schemes offered by health insurers and insurance companies are under the income-tax net.The CBDT has now made it clear that Third Party Administrators (TPAs) must deduct tax at source on payments made to hospitals for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in for ...
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• Dangerous flu misinformation from HuffPo----again

  
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  We already know about the Huffington Posts war on science and its shameless publication of snake oil ads disguised as journalism . Now, Mark Hyman, an evangelist for the cult known as "functional medicine" , is giving even more bad flu advice (and shilling for his books). He begins his blathering, misleading ...
  1 week ago

• Kids got autism? Get em high!

  
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  Today over at Science-Based Medicine, Dr. Novella has a review of the so-called "biomed" movement in autism treatment. Anyone should be able to understand the desperation of parents with sick kids, but grief can lead to very bad decisions. As physicians, one of our jobs is to guide people away from these decisions ...
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• No shame: antivaccine ghouls defame the dead, and elevate the disgraced

  
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  There are a couple of quotes circulating widely claiming that major players in flu vaccine development are "denouncing" the vaccine. From (shudder!) mercola.com: "Dr. Anthony Morris, a distinguished virologist and former Chief Vaccine Office at the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA), states that "There is no ...
  2 weeks ago

• Doctors are just like military dictators

  
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  Theres a number of dangers in carrying an analogy too far. One situation may be analogous to another without being identical , or they may not in fact be analogous at all. Forgetting this principle can get you into a wee bit of trouble. To formalize it a bit, just because you think "A" resembles "B", and "B" ...
  3 weeks ago

• A crank is a crank

  
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  Im told that mathematicians and physicists get a lot of mail from folks with "big discoveries" . These discoveries are often of the "Einstein was wrong and I figured out the Theory of Everything" variety. Many of us refer to these folks as "cranks" , a catch-all, derogatory term for people who, through their own ...
  4 weeks ago

• What do we need most during a flu pandemic? Zombie quacks!

  
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  One of my dear readers just left the internet equivalent of a flaming bag of turd on my bloggy doorstep: Everybody should read this article by Dr. Russell Blaylock http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/03/What-We-Have-Learned-About-the-Great-Swine-Flu-Pandemic.aspx These are the facts folks, ...
  4 weeks ago

• The anti-vaccination movement is morally bankrupt

  
  White Coat Underground — Authority: 527
  A hat-tip to my buddy Abel over at TerraSig for keeping this story alive and inspiring me to chime in.  --PalMD Its no secret that I find the anti-vaccination crowd to be abhorrent. The publics health is the first victim, followed closely by individual patients and parents struggling with individual health ...
  5 weeks ago

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