Has anyone heard of Tibb/Unani Medicine?

The shocking news of JetBlue Pilot Clayton Osbon demands we look seriously at the research we have on statin drug side effects. Dr Duane Graveline, former NASA astronaut, USAF flight surgeon and family doctor www.spacedoc.net who has written 3 books reviewing statin research. Drug companies are aware of the toxic side effects, but comtinue ...

This is the 22nd year that we’ve been producing a monthly issue of What Doctors Don’t Tell You, and people always seem to ask: Don’t you ever run out of things to write about? Thus far, we don’t seem to have any problems, but thanks for asking.  It’s never a question I ask myself. But here’s one that I do ...

Hello, My grandson aged 4 yrs and 7 months has been on Domperidone for 3 years 6 months.  His behaviour is very volatile and he can be very aggressive.  Has anyone else experience of Domperidone use in such a small child?  He's on 3mls 3 times per day.  He was diagnosed with tracheo malacia and severe silent reflux at 13 ...

Just occasionally, I come across a doctor willing to break the conspiracy of silence on the damage caused by their tools. My hero of the hour is American psychiatrist Grace E. Jackson, who is utterly and refreshingly horrified by psychiatric and most other forms of pharmaceutical medicine. In fact, so incensed was Jackson over the current state of ...

As a Buteyko Practitioner I have come to realize that there are three ways of treating any disease associated with stress. The argument is simple: stressors trigger an autonomic response in us usually described as the "fight flight response", this response causes increased heart rate, increased breathing, increased sweating, etc. all ...

I recently read in one of this site's articles about the 3-14 month life-span of stimulant drugs such as ritalin. It didn't mention anything about Concerta, the stimulant I'm currently taking for ADD, though I am concerned because After about 9 months the drug started waring off, and I couldn't concentrate or remember near as well ...

In these austere times, President Obama’s Congress and the fledgling UK coalition government are casting around furiously for ways to trim their bloated deficits. Yet, in the midst of all this slashing and burning, healthcare is the area that clearly remains a no-go zone. In the UK, although Prime Minister David Cameron has been combing ...

Hi Robin I totally agree with you. I come from a family where cancer has been "rife". My dad died of prostate cancer, his sister of ovarian cancer, their brother of lung cancer. They all had conventional treatment, you know what that means; chemo, radiotherapy and surgery. I saw for myself what this approach can do and when I say that ...

I am relieved to hear anyone on warfarin say they have no side effects from it - I think you should count your blessings.  As with all drugs, they come with the potential to do more harm than good and I would dispute the fact that anyone could call warfarin a 'clean drug'.  My husband certainly didn't benefit from it as you ...