by DrLinda | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog
Fibromyalgia is best described as chronic pain all over. Sounds miserable, doesn’t it? And it is exactly the sort of illness that M.D.s hate to see. It does not have clear blood markers, making diagnosis difficult. It does not respond well to medication. It...
by DrLinda | Dec 2, 2012 | Blog
One of the complaints I see most often is GERD, or acid reflux. We spend $13 billion a year on this one illness in the U.S. That money is spend on drugs called proton pump inhibitors, which are designed to reduce the amount of acid formed in the stomach. The...
by DrLinda | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog
This past February, Whitney Houston was found dead with Xanax and alcohol in her system. In her hotel room she had prescription drugs including Xanax, Valium, and Ativan, all anti-depressants. Anti-depressants, anti-anxiety, and insomnia drugs are becoming a...
by DrLinda | Nov 15, 2012 | Blog
* The prize for the worst food innovation ever goes to the Iowa State Fair, which offered 57 varieties of deep-fried food-on-a-stick (think corn dogs), including deep fried butter! A half-stick of cold butter, covered in funnel cake batter, fried, then glazed with...
by DrLinda | Nov 14, 2012 | Blog
The diagnostic tools available to modern medicine, such as X-rays, CT scans, MRIs, etc., allow medical doctors to look right inside your body to see what is going on. They are undoubtedly extremely valuable, and at the same time, none of them are completely without...
