Make Your New Year’s Resolution Green

Posted on March 18, 2011
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Those of you who are regular readers of my blogs know that I don’t believe you need a New Year’s resolution to commit to making healthy changes in your lifestyle. Even so, now that the holidays are over and we transcend into 2011, millions of Americans are making their annual pledge to reinvent themselves by [...]

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Coming Clean on Triclosan

Posted on February 26, 2011
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If you’re grocery list includes detergents, dishwashing liquids, soaps, deodorants, cosmetics, lotions, anti-microbial creams and toothpaste, you should know these everyday products may also include a chemical used for its antibacterial properties — triclosan. When triclosan in liquid soaps and other household products comes into contact with water, it interacts with free chlorine in tap [...]

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Prostate Cancer and the Obesity Cycle

Posted on February 11, 2011
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After a careful review of the published literature, researchers at Duke University have now provided solid evidence for what many studies have already suggested; that obesity is linked to worse outcomes in patients with prostate cancer.  The data shows that obese men are at increased risk for high-grade, advanced disease, and higher levels of cancer [...]

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Conflict of Children’s Interest Inside the American Academy of Pediatrics

Posted on February 7, 2011
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For years there has been a contentious debate about the influence powerful industries have over our politics. But what about industry influence on medicine and physicians? Each year, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) holds an annual conference where over 10,000 pediatricians and their families from around the world attend workshops and hear about the [...]

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New Dangers of Radiation Therapy Exposed

Posted on January 28, 2011
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Over the past several months, journalists have exposed some risks of radiation therapy that have been previously unknown, sometimes with disastrous consequences.  Some experts estimate that 1 in 20 men undergoing radiation therapy will have such complications.  Many of the problems involve technical errors that went unrecognized, leading to serious radiation overdoses.  I’ll go over [...]

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