A recent study found that some people who take aspirin daily to ward off a stroke or MI build up a resistance so that the drug ceases to prevent platelet aggregation. They found when evaluating 2,700 patients that an amazing 25% were aspirin resistant, which left them vulnerable to severe disease. Terry Pfau, DO, HMD
Researchers in Berlin, Germany have studied the effects of Arnica on patients who underwent arthroscopic knee surgery because of knee disease. They gave a 30x dilution of Arnica before the surgery and also daily afterwards. They also took before and after measurements of the circumference of the knee. In three separate trials, patients receiving Arnica …
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Good news for some menopausal women: Recent analysis reverses previous findings about hormones and heart risk. According to an April 4th Wall Street Journal article by Tara Parker-Pope, researchers have done an about face on the subject after fuller analysis of the 15-yearlong Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), generated five years ago. The researchers now say …
Want to quit overeating, smoking, drinking, gambling or spending too much or other bad habits? Unfortunately, just “saying no” doesn’t quit do it. Unlearning a habit that you’ve been practicing for 10-20 years demands effort. Habits are behaviors you’ve repeated so often, you now do them on autopilot. They’ve become part of your comfortable routine …
Six weeks ago I had a local physician come in to see me for treatment of a very annoying illness. As I shook his hand I saw he was wearing plastic gloves. As we sat down to discuss his problem he immediately began relating what happened a year ago to him. He pretty much spent …
The FDA clearly demonstrated recently that it is a pawn of big pharmacies by threatening cherry farmers and tart cherry juice producers with legalaction if they continue to educate the public about the health benefitsinherent in eating and/or drinking tart cherries. This is despite the fact thatthere is plentiful scientific evidence for the efficacy of …
A recent study conducted by Pennsylvania researchers revealed that 59 of the 200 children’s hospitals surveyed hosted on-site fast-food restaurants (e.g., McDonald’s). Fifty-six percent of the adult survey participants and their children who were outpatients at a hospital with an on-site fast-food restaurant ate fast food the day of the survey. It is common knowledge …
I was surprised to find an article in the Archives of Internal Medicine which looked at a randomized controlled trial involving selenium supplementation in the treatment of HIV. In the study HIV viral load and CD4 count were evaluated after 9 months of treatment with high selenium yeast supplementation (200micrograms/day). The study found that the …
Plantar fasciitis is a relatively common problem that I see in the office. It usually will manifest as pain on the sole of the foot especially first thing in the morning on putting weight on the foot. Besides homeopathic treatment patients can do the following: Icing is recommended after exercising, stretching, and strengthening, and at …
Did you know that starting in the fall of 2007, truly raw almonds will not be available in the USA or Canada? The FDA, USDA and the California Almond Board has developed a marketing order which mandates that all almonds must be pasteurized. This came about because ” two outbreaks of salmonella, associated with conventional …