Note on Previous Article: Doctors are Idiots

This satire piece does not mean to imply that ALL doctors are complete idiots when it comes to health. There are exceptions. Many of the outstanding people I know in natural health started as conventional medical doctors (M.D.s). The difference between complete idiot doctors and intelligent doctors is that idiots are not willing to abandon [...]

Why doctors are still idiots

When it comes to medical idiocy, these examples are just the tip of the iceberg. The same hopelessly outdated medical system that has given us cigarette-promoting doctors, breastfeeding-censoring doctors and superbug-breeding doctors is now claiming your children need yet more chemicals in their bodies in the form of vaccinations!
And, by the way, these doctors are [...]

doctors failed to report an incompetent colleague

2007
A survey of 1,600 practicing physicians published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reveals that reveals that nearly half of all doctors failed to report an incompetent colleague who posed a risk to the health or safety of a patient. The same survey also revealed that a majority of doctors would send their patients [...]

High-Dose Chemo Doesn’t Help Breast Cancer

Getting diagnosed with cancer is difficult enough, but choosing the right treatment from the bewildering array of options can be just as challenging. For breast cancer patients, that decision just got a little less complicated, with a new study showing that a once-popular therapy doesn’t provide any additional survival benefit.
Researchers at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center [...]

FDA Panel Rejects Merck Statin Mevacor for OTC Status

 An FDA advisory panel on Thursday voted 10-2 against recommending that Merck’s cholesterol drug Mevacor be granted over-the-counter status, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Although FDA is not bound by its advisory panels’ recommendations, it usually follows them (Stark, Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/14). The decision marks the third time that an advisory panel has rejected such a [...]

Vaccine Recall: What Parents Need to Know

Merck announced that it is voluntarily recalling 1 million doses of two common childhood vaccines, routinely given to children under 5. Here’s everything you need to know about the recall.
Which vaccines are affected?
Merck is pulling 11 lots of PedvaxHIB and two lots of COMVAX. PedvaxHIB is a vaccine that protects against infection with haemophilus influenzae [...]

Quackwatch Begging for Money for Legal Costs

Dr. Barrett’s followers are begging for donations to pay for legal costs after the California Supreme court fined him and Polevoy for bringing forth a frivilous lawsuit. The court batte went on for 6 years against Ilena Rosenthal. Why these individuals would want to spend so much effort going after someone who is out to [...]

Canada halts use of mumps vaccine, launches probe

TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada suspended use of three batches of a mumps vaccine on Wednesday after five people fell ill in the midst of a vaccination campaign in the western province of Alberta.
Health Canada advised against the use of the three lots of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine sold by MerckFrosst Canada, while it investigates [...]

Study flags Avandia risks

A new Canadian study provides the strongest evidence to date of the dangers of the popular diabetes drug Avandia, particularly when used by seniors.
The research, published in today’s edition of The Journal of the American Medical Association, is the latest in a series of studies calling the safety of the drug into question.
Older diabetics taking [...]

Take kids’ cold meds off market, journal urges

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration should take the advice of its own panel of experts and immediately insist that cold and cough remedies for children be taken off store shelves.
That’s the advice from an editorial in this week’s edition of the influential New England Journal of Medicine.
The piece, released Thursday, says the FDA “should [...]