In America alone, tens of millions take sleeping pills to sleep each night. Yet sleeping pills don’t produce natural sleep. They worsen memory. They increase the risk of death.
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Less sleep, more weight?
Foul up body clocks and people eat more – and less healthily.
Deny, delay, pay the fine
MATTHEW EDLUND M.D. Contributing Writer edlund@lbknews.com Treasure your hips. Regenerate them well. Keep them whole. Or you may face a series of nightmares. That’s what happened to many who received metal hip implants made by DePuy. DePuy Orthopaedics is a division of Johnson and Johnson, one of America’s “great companies.” And the Articular Surface Replacement, [...]
Bacteria are reprogramming your DNA
DNA is one information system. And the pen that rewrites it can be viruses, bacteria, genetic engineering – and ultimately any imaginative human with access to a lab – a thought that has security experts spinning. Our bodies live on, manufacture, mutate and reform information as the basis of informing life. It’s time for medicine and public health to take note.
The generic drug mess
By shifting generics onto patients and not telling, greed can overcome good.
Simple ways to live longer
odifiable lifestyle factors can add six years to men and five years’ to women’s lifespan at age 75. They can even expand survival four years in those aged 85.
Dr. Medicine explains health care for you
MATTHEW EDLUND M.D. Contributing Columnist health@lbknews.com TV interviewer Lolly Partridge: Thanks so much for coming to Superior TV! We’re so, so happy to have the famous Dr. Medicine. Dr. Medicine: Thanks, Lolly. Traffic was murderous, and this show does keep me from paying the bills at the office. But it makes the PR department and [...]
One dollar = One vote
A modest proposal to rebuild American greatness.
Whatever happened to guilt? Character, personality in America
MATTHEW EDLUND M.D. Contributing Columnist health@lbknews.com What has happened to the moral landscape of this country? These days we read that after helping blow the world economy, bankers went on to “fix” arguably the most important interest rate in the world and laundered money to Iran; that the most heralded sports heroes took performance enhancing [...]
Better living with booze?
MATTHEW EDLUND M.D. Contributing Columnist health@lbknews.com Can alcohol be good for you? Much evidence would argue yes. Compare “moderate” drinkers who have perhaps one glass of wine a day versus those who never drink. Who lives longer? Those who drink small amounts regularly. Yet alcohol causes lung cancer, stomach cancer, kidney cancer, brain cancer, oral [...]
